Politics is like baseball. If your team loses, you remember who struck out in the ninth inning, not who struck out in the fourth. – Howard Fineman, on McCain and blame assignation for the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, in Bailout ushers in the era of Obama, MSNBC, 29 September 2008. I mention this not to
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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. – unknown author? I saw this attributed to Teddy Roosevelt but that strikes me as so odd that I won’t repeat the credit. But I will at least repeat the phrase, which makes a lot of sense. Not long ago I met
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Ronald Reagan often said “Trust. But verify” when negotiating with the Soviets. More cynically during the early 90s, I used to say “trust not, want not” after combining that Russian proverb with “waste not, want not.” Happily, I’ve lost my cynicism since then, but I still use the phrase as a reminder to never assume
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE)
Great work doesn’t just spring from the minds of one or two creative people. It is produced by an entire organization that understands and encourages that greatness. Such environments cannot be created by fiat. They are built cumulatively by every manager in the organization, bit by bit, over time, by hundreds of thousands of events–every
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Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. – C. Northcote Parkinson, in Economist, 19 Nov 1955, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
Greetings today from Las Vegas, where I didn’t expect to be. Las Vegas was supposed to be an overnight stop during my road trip from Denver to San Francisco, but that was before I found out that I had a broken windshield and that my insurance company had no idea I was driving my current
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If the person is over 40 years old, I tell him he should do something because it is first good for Japan, good for the company, good for his family and finally good for him. If the person is under 40, I tell him he should do it because first it is good for him,
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I got a chuckle when someone referred to today as “September Fool’s Day.” I suspect he repeats this gag every first of the month. We did a big of pranking at my first job — anything from spraying paper-punch holes all over someone’s office, to tweaking computer screens so that the (DOS) menu items would
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We don’t need a silver bullet. We need silver buckshot.– Md. State Delegate Sue Kullen. Through lucky circumstance, I happened to meet Delegate Kullen over lunch, soon after she had been talking with some of the nation’s leading Democrats about health care. The gist of her comment is that the health care system is too
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