A good corporation is like a vampire – or maybe a zombie. Our job is to suck you dry of inspiration and ideas, then release you to our competition which will pay more for you than you’re worth and get even less productivity from you than we did – as hard as that is to imagine.

Conceptually, they’re an admission of failure before you even begin to get the lead out. If you want to be a high-powered CEO, you don’t have time to correct your mistakes, let alone admit them.

“I live to work.” People like to say phrases like this, but that phrase is completely inaccurate. For someone to “live to work,” that person has to actually work in the first place and not chat, nap, daydream, stare out the window or whatever the hell else he’s doing when sitting at his desk.