Karan Johar Quotes

They knew I had some problems with them. …. It was a bunch of bullshit. I didn't believe in it. …. They are constituents of mine. They have a huge facility in Helmet. If they come in with a legitimate concern, then I will address it.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

In peace, as there is more time to spare, the leaders are expected to persuade the rank and file, instead of commanding them.

Treat cabinet officers as friends but understand that they are also enemies.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.

Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.

When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that's going to attack you, a guy or gal that's going to attack or that they're going to try to get the best of you. Two-thirds of us, that makes us very defensive.

We had a talk early on and decided we did not want to end up like the Hogans.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

If you're 1 of the 3 girls in pics with a greaseball whose arms are around you at a club you lose at life. If you're the greaseball you win.

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.