Adrian Pasdar Quotes

I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

A lot of companies have teams, but they are not really independent. They still have to get stuff approved by the boss. You have to change how and where decisions are made. If the hierarchy makes the decision, it will be based on politics.

Some governments are corrupt but are known for their competency in running the city. Others are incompetent but are considered "clean." [Washington] DC's government is scandalously corrupt and hopelessly incompetent.

We are ruled by big business and the government as its paid hireling … the divine right of kings has been replaced by the divine right of CEOs.

Businessmen are barbarians in suits.

I know that men are not equal; nowhere on the earth or in Nature is there equality—there is variety .... The natural variety must be organized through the division and gradation of functions and work; no organization of men is possible without superiors and subordinates, but it must just be an organization, and not a privilege, not aristocratic coercion but mutual service.

He [Richard Nixon] is still the handmaiden of big business as he always has been.

It is no accident that in America today the gap between the very rich and everyone else is wider than at any time since the Gilded Age. Now, as then, the titans are seeking an even greater political voice to match their economic power. Now, as then, the inevitable danger is that they will confuse their own self-interest with the common good.

When people rob banks, they go to prison. When bankers rob people, they get a bonus

Sometimes it's hard to tell which evokes more anger – businesses that know and care about nothing except profits or governments that know and care about nothing except power and paper-pushing. However, anger is not a solution. Anger attempts to shout down problems, and it never works.

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.

I want to give businessmen an honorable place but they make crooks out of themselves.

After thirty years of a collapsing middle class,” he writes, “after thirty years of an economy designed to stack the deck in favor of the big guys; after thirty years of a political and constitutional system increasingly rigged to work for economic elites — after all this, the people revolted.

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it.