The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.
At the risk of displeasing innocent ears I submit that egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul.
The nobility of the soul makes itself known by admitting its egoism without consciousness, without remorse, without self-deception.
Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
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