Every generation is undersupplied with people who publicize their failures but hide their successes, and oversupplied with those who do the opposite.

To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

Our successes are seldom as sweet as our enemies’ failures.

Our failures are way less likely than our successes to be ignored by our enemies.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

Some of the people who are showing off their speed are headed in the wrong direction.

Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.

Some women sleep their way to the top. Most men sleep their way to the bottom.