People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

That's what people are like: they want talent, which is inherently peculiar, yet they absolutely don't want the peculiarities connected to it - perhaps necessarily bound up with it - which they refuse to understand or forgive.

Some people are just no good at not being in charge.

Almost all professionals are slow to use their own expertise for their own work.

A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to.

Those who want to look like hard workers give the impression that they aren't up to their jobs.

Develop 'strategic incompetence' - people won't ask you to do things you hate to do, if you're bad at them.

When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating.

They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool.

Socialists don't like people to do things for themselves. Socialists like to get people dependent on the state! You never build a great society that way.

But a major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.

Develop "strategic incompetence" - people won't ask you to do things you hate to do, if you're bad at them.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

People hate considering that your life’s work may involve working less for pay