Alain de Botton Quote

Year-end financial statements … express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable—yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating—than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.


pp. 259-260. - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009)


Year-end financial statements … express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable—yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or...

Year-end financial statements … express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable—yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or...

Year-end financial statements … express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable—yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or...

Year-end financial statements … express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable—yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or...