There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.Mark Zuckerberg
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.Rabindranath Tagore
I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.Howard Jacobson
The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.Howard Jacobson
Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested in what I believe.Howard Jacobson
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.Howard Jacobson
One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow.Howard Jacobson
