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-{{a|shitmaxim|{{image|Hindenburg|jpg|A results-driven airship pilot yesterday.}}}}The accountants’ favourite chocolatier (and our ''second'' favourite chocolatier, after our own in-house chocolatiers, [[Maple, Maple et Cie|Les Frères Maple]]) Marc de Marquette, tells us:
+{{a|shitmaxim|{{image|pripyat|jpg|A results-driven village in Ukraine yesterday.}}}}The accountants’ favourite chocolatier (and our ''second'' favourite chocolatier, after our own in-house chocolatiers, [[Maple, Maple et Cie|Les Frères Maple]]) Marc de Marquette, tells us:
 {{quote|“''Marc is driven by results and no better way for him to demonstrate his excellence than winning [[awards]] for his creations and his clients.''”}}
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 The captain of the [[Hindenburg]] got results, after all. So did the deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl. And [[Lehman Brothers|Dick Fuld]]. Just not particularly ''good'' ones.
-So unless your industry is to distinguish yourself from those with whom you work who have ''no'' discernible impact on its operation, good or ill — in fairness, that’s most of them — then you might want to put something a little more specific in your professional autobiography. Or just lie about it. And if you can’t — well: ''are'' you having a discernible impact?
+So unless your industry is to distinguish yourself from those with whom you work who have ''no'' discernible impact on the world, good or ill — in fairness, that’s a great number of people — then you might want to put something a little more specific in your professional autobiography than “results-driven”.
+Or just lie about it. And if you can’t even do that — well: ''are'' you having a discernible impact?
 {{sa}}