The Curriculum Quotes

“Today we will tackle the rudiments of getting people to buy the thing you’re selling. This is the heart of all activity of any kind in the human sphere. Along with the opposable thumb, this capacity—to sell others something they perhaps did not even know they wanted—is what separates Homo sapiens from its ancestors. Cows do not sell each other hay when they are hungry. Monkeys do not sell each other bananas. Only human beings can create the perception in other human beings that, even though they have showered, they still smell bad and need an underarm deodorant to set things right.”
― Stanley Bing, The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts

“Solve problems, don’t create them. A huge number of very dislikable people have this aggravating habit of either creating problems they can then solve to the acclaim of the multitudes, or blowing up the size of issues and then handing them off to others. Try to not do that.”
― Stanley Bing, The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts

“Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push people around do very well, too, even the ugly ones.”
― Stanley Bing, The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts

“Cows do not sell each other hay when they are hungry. Monkeys do not sell each other bananas. Only human beings can create the perception in other human beings that, even though they have showered, they still smell bad and need an underarm deodorant to set things right.”
― Stanley Bing, The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts

“There is no such thing as a merger. There are only buyers and sellers. Those who are bought are in danger when they have to bend over to pick up the soap. That’s good to know.”
― Stanley Bing, The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts