“Interestingly, much as the happiest people don’t seek happiness, the wealthiest people are not those who most ruthlessly pursue wealth.101 John Kay cites a number of cases of global giants, household names such as ICI, Boeing, Merck, Pfizer and Citigroup, which were once highly profitable organisations while they focussed on delivering a good product, but which nosedived as soon as the bean-counters took over, and told people to focus on the bottom line – making money. Greed doesn’t pay (although abjuring greed because it pays better to do so is to thwart oneself, since it is the attitude of mind, not a certain action or set of actions, that is both in itself to be desired and goes to create prosperity). Success in business comes, bizarrely enough, as a by-product of running a good business.””
Quotes by John McGilchrist
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
John McGilchrist
John McGilchrist was a 19th-century slave trader based in Charleston, South Carolina, whose activities significantly impacted the region's slave trade dynamics. Engaging primarily in interstate tradin...