Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Comparisons are odious.
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. Translated by Edith Grossman, Ecco, 2003, p. 614.
Managers and leaders always make comparisons in order to hire and promote staff and the like. What St, Teresa warns against is making comparisons when communicating with individuals or publicly as people tend to react badly to open comparisons where they do not come out as the best. These Maxims would be useful for any political campaign staff or government agency.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature.