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These guys cashed out big time, made a lot of money by taking their company public. Little did they know or care that they were inviting into the house major private capital investment companies that were going to put pressure on their future management.


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JOSEPH CONRAD It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible,...
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CONRAD AIKEN It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
JOSEPH CONRAD The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with...
JOSEPH CONRAD The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, d...
JOSEPH CONRAD There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRAD Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the...
JOSEPH CONRAD They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi...
JOSEPH CONRAD Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely ...
JOSEPH CONRAD Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of si...
JOSEPH CONRAD You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, s...
JOSEPH CONRAD You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRAD The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- coura...
JOSEPH CONRAD The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembod...
JOSEPH CONRAD Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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