“Indeed, one of the principal fears of the American Patriots in the run-up to the war was that Parliament would unleash the East India Company in the Americas to loot there as it had done in India.”
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
“It was not the British government that began seizing great chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by a violent, utterly ruthless and intermittently mentally unstable corporate predator – Clive.”
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
“It’s not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it’s that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”
― The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
― The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
“do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early,”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
“The EIC was, as one of its directors admitted, ‘an empire within an empire’, with the power to make war or peace anywhere in the East.”
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
― The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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