These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
SuskindAuthor describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".
SuskindTags: false-modesty
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
SuskindTags: change anxiety disorientation
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
SuskindTags: confidence marketing professionalism competence
If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.
SuskindTags: magnanimity noblesse-oblige greatest-generation graciousness
Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you can't" or "you won't" or "why bother." More than anything else, mastering that faith, on cue, is what separated him from his peers, and distinguishes him from so many people in these literal, sophisticated times. It has made all the difference.
SuskindTags: success faith hope poverty hard-work belief-in-self
I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
SuskindTags: loyalty plutocracy vendetta dick-cheney u-s-politics bush-administration
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