This is old. But I love it and I will copy it here, one more time.
Two years ago. Leadership Team meeting of the company I’ve worked for – British engineering giant, once quoted at the London FTSE 250, now with a French ownership.
The President, a veteran leader, to a (less veteran) member of the LT:
Your proposal is like communism: great concept, but it does not work in practice.
September 1994