The reason businessmen speak of gurus is because they cannot spell the word “charlatan”.
Courtesy of The Witch Doctors by Micklethwait & Wooldridge. For those of you that want to make sure that somoeone actually said this, please note that I have intentionally left out the reference to American businessmen because the example is equally relevant on a global scale.
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