Akbar Ali

“Start with the end in mind. ”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Cliché: "The MBA changed my life."

What it really means:
"A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program.”
― Sameer Kamat, Beyond The MBA Hype: A Guide to Understanding and Surviving B-Schools

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

[From the Preface]”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.”
― Brad Szollose