Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those

of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
James Surowiecki

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
Donald Rumsfeld

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
Robert Plant

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Robert Motherwell

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Friedrich Schiller

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Peter Tosh