"The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it’s the only thing they’ve been allowed to do."
― Paul Theroux
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Business
More From Paul Theroux
- "If you’re a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don’t like other people. I’m not like that, I don’t think."
- "When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn’t make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn’t make a phone call. So for six years I didn’t make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books."
- "Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
More In Business
- "Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily."― Roger Moore
- "In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you’ve achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too."― Lynn Johnston
- "When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."― Billie Jean King