Anand Giridharadas Quotes

The nature of politics is to subtract meaning from language.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.

Don't you go believing in sayings … they are all made by men, for their own advantages.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

When the idea of 'We' came in, it started as a 'WeBlank: WeWork, WeLive, WeSleep, WeEat.' That was the premise at the very start.

I can help as chairperson, and Fulham can help our NFL effort. Collectively, these synergies will help everybody.

Co-innovation between a startup and an enterprise works best when each party fills a gap in the other's capabilities and when they share equitably in both the work and the rewards.

Trump simply can't dial down the lying, or turn it off - even, his own attorneys suggest, when false statements may be punished as crimes.

Mercedes and Ferrari are working as one team these days. Sometimes it is difficult to tell which is which.

Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

The best way to motivate other people to help YOU fulfil your goals is to help them fulfil THEIR goals

Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account . . . Here then I leave you to labor alone; you treat me in the same manner. The seasons change, and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.