"The businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the clients and managers—all walking around Wall Street like chickens with their heads cut off—rushing to escape bankruptcy—plotting to melt down the Statue of Liberty—to press more copper pennies—to breed more headless chickens—to put more feathers in their caps—medals, diplomas, stock certificates, honorary doctorates—eggs and eggs of headless chickens—multitaskers—system hackers—who never know where they’re heading—northward, backward, eastward, forward, and never homeward—(where is home)—home is in the head—(but the head is cut off)—and the nest is full of banking forms and Easter eggs with coins inside. Beheaded chickens, how do you breed chickens with their heads cut off? By teaching them to bankrupt creativity."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana, (2011), p. 32
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Businessperson
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Businessperson
13 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Businessperson →
Related Quotes
"In former days this maxim was displayed in Business Offices, "Call upon a Businessman, at business hours, on business…"
"Such a businessman has never become rich whose mouth was full of slander and his heart full of envy of success of the…"
"The Renaissance had its man: Il Cortesano. The 20th century had its man: the businessman."
"Everybody knows by now, all businessmen are completely full of shit; just the worst kind of low-life, criminal, cocks…"
"It may seem paradoxical to say that there are similarities between a poetical and a commercial mind, but it is a fact…"
"Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by …"
"The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods."
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter, an ar…"
"Ninety-nine men in a hundred are natural men, that is, beasts of prey; and it is mere insanity, in business matters, …"
"The working life of the businessman has the psychology of a hundred-yards race, but as the race upon which he is enga…"