“The best way to manage people, he thought, was to convince them that you were good for their careers. He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.”

—  Michael Lewis, book Flash Boys

Source: Flash Boys (2014), p. 26

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