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" It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it — Upton Sinclair 12 BATTLE FOR THE DARK TOWER: NOT A CONTEST AFTER ALL? "
Hemp: American History Revisited: The Plant with a Divided History - Page 106
by Robert Deitch - 2003 - 232 pages
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And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the ...

Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. — A. Bartlett Giamatti It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair The conventional definition of management is getting...
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I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

Upton Sinclair - History - 2023 - 276 pages
...for use in frocess of growth, providing security and plenty for all. used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" There were and still are a million and a quarter [109] people in California...
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The Executive's Book of Quotations

Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin - Business & Economics - 1994 - 402 pages
...object; I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. DOROTHY PARKER, writer, responding to a job offer "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." UPTON SINCLAIR, novelist (Toastmaster, p. 4910) SALES TECHNIQUES "I...
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Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 278 pages
...Waldo Emerson Quien da el pan impone la ley. Who gives the bread lays down the law. Spanish proverb It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair Even the blind can see money. Chinese proverb Only the...
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Integrated Health Care: Lessons Learned

Bill Amery, J. William Appling - Health services administration - 1999 - 420 pages
...Meta A. Dooley and Kevin M. Kennedy Chapter 1 Physician compensation: economic reality by Bill Amery "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair This case study is actually a composite of findings...
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Power Grab: How the National Education Association Is Betraying Our Children

G. Gregory Moo - Education - 1999 - 372 pages
...private sector and in other public-sector agencies. state school boards. For, as Upton Sinclair wrote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." As it exists today, collective bargaining has grown to include anything...
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Today I Will Not Die

Mary Ann Block - Health & Fitness - 2001 - 276 pages
...the cancer—in her mind now and in her body later. Chapter 1 6 By the Book: A Place for Nutrition "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." —Upton Sinclair The medical field itself is a battleground, a minefield...
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Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky

David L. Kimbrough - Religion - 2002 - 592 pages
...stratospheric Lewisiana industry? That is the subject of the next chapter, "Battle for the Dark Tower." It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it — Upton Sinclair In fact, in 1999 a Kilns ad appeared in newspapers,...
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Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of ...

H. J. Glasbeek - Business & Economics - 2002 - 379 pages
...telling him not to do so. See Glasbeek, "Entrenchment of Freedom of Speech." Or, as HL Mencken declared: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his income depends on his not understanding it." (As cited in Krugman, "Right-Wing Wrongs,"in Krugman,...
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Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

Molly Ivins, Lou DuBose - Political Science - 2003 - 376 pages
...has been very well paid to make that argument. As Upton Sinclair, the great muckraker, once observed, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something...when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Scalia worked with another Gibson, Dunn lawyer, Baruch Fellner, but Scalia was the star. The king of...
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