Missy Peregrym Quotes

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies

Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business, and no one is friends.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

There is no friendship in trade.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Corporations are not capable of doing things out of the goodness of their hearts. They don’t have hearts.

A market is a place set apart for men to deceive and get the better of one another.

Under every stone lurks a politician

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

We corrupt the word of truth, and mix ... our doctrine with what is common and cheap... in order to turn the adulteration to our profit, and accommodate ourselves to those who meet us, and curry favor with everyone, becoming ventriloquists and chatterers, who serve their own pleasures by words uttered from the earth, and sinking into the earth, and, to gain the special good will of the multitude