Your best response to an insult is “You’re probably right.” Often they are.

You better not run out on a check... The people that are working for three dollars an hour have to pay your bill

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living. It's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety. I want to look now, if I may, at some of the reasons why we might be feeling anxiety about our careers. Why we might be victims of these career crises, as we're weeping softly into our pillows. One of the reasons why we might be suffering is that we are surrounded by snobs.