Sloan Wilson - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955)

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

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The company had a policy of giving all job applicants an interview. Every year about twenty thousand people, most of them wildly unqualified, applied for jobs there, and it was considered poor public relations to turn them away too abruptly.

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Anybody's life can be summed up in a paragraph.

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Where did I ever get the idea that life is supposed to be anything but work? A man's work should be his pleasure–I shouldn't expect anything more.

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I don't know what's the matter with us. Your job is plenty good enough. We've got three nice kids, and lots of people would be glad to have a house like this. We shouldn't be so discontented all the time.

Betsy Rath talking to Tom

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I'm just a nine-to-five guy, and I'm not interested in being much more, because life is too short, and I don't want to work evenings and week ends forever.

Tom speaking

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