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The Apprentice traded on Donald’s image as the brash, self-made dealmaker, a myth that had been the creation of my grandfather five decades earlier and that astonishingly, considering the vast trove of evidence disproving it, had survived
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“A common expression among laid-off workers fifty-five years and older who are struggling to find work is “you don’t even exist.” You cobble a job here and a job there, always marginal to management. Apply for a job you’re well qualified for and you’ll probably never hear back from the employer.”
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing The Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing The Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
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“For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.”
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“The rise of unretirement is good news for the economy’s vitality, the material well-being of individuals in life’s third stage, and for shoring up the financial health of the social safety net.”
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing The Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
― Unretirement: How Baby Boomers Are Changing The Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
“Confucius, the philosopher and politician who was born in the sixth century B.C.E. He acquired a place in Chinese history akin to that of Socrates in the West, in part because his ideology encouraged order and loyalty. “There is government,” Confucius said, “when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.” Confucius linked morality to the strength of the state: “He who exercises government by means of virtue may be compared to the North Star, which holds its place while all other stars turn around it.”
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
― Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
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