As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.