“I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.”
“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”
“If. A two-letter word for futility.”
“Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”
“The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.”
“Each manager sees his own division as the center of the world, and that’s as it should be. But someone has to have an overall view and decide what’s best for the company.”
“Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.”
“Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
For what they have not, that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
And so, by hoping more, they have but less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.”
“Nowadays people rush into print before they’ve even finished the proof.”
“...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.”
“You'll feel better after a new pair of jeans and a triple fudge meltdown. And if that doesn't work, we'll watch Magic Mike."
Cara laughed as tears welled in her eyes. "Let's hope it doesn't come to that.”
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