You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

In the corporate world, sometimes things aren’t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.