# Quote — Max Barry, Company

> The Infrastructure Control manager is a short, muscular man with a dark beard. He is an oddity in Zephyr Holdings: a person who started on the floor and was promoted through hard work. This makes other managers uncomfortable. The idea that you can get ahead through sheer competence, and not politicking, backstabbing, fleeing impending disasters, and clambering on board imminent successes, undermines everything they know.

- Author: [Max Barry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry.md)
- Book: [Company](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company.md)
- Page: 222
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Company_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/the-infrastructure-control

## More from this book

> Senior Management may have been incompetent; it may have been corrupt; it was certainly full of assholes—but they were their incompetent, corrupt assholes.

p. 294 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/senior-management-may.md)

> “What happened to sticking together? What happened to teamwork?” He gives Holly a dirty look.
>
> “Hey,” Holly says. “You know what Roger told me? He said there’s no such thing as teamwork. It’s a con. The company doesn’t promote teams. If you want to get ahead you have to screw everybody else and look after yourself. Co-workers are competitors. Roger told me the truth: there’s no I in team, but there’s no U, either!”

p. 237 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/what-happened-to-sticking.md)

> Mona says bravely, “I can’t see how this will work. You can’t abolish Senior Management. Zephyr isn’t a democracy. It’s a corporation.”
>
> “I believe,” Klausman says, “that Jones is advancing the theory that those two concepts are not mutually exclusive.”

p. 289 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/mona-says-bravely.md)