The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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- By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
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- Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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