Values

Don’t waste your breath proclaiming what’s really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

Eric Zorn

What Not Every Employer Knows

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

Victor Hugo

How Poor Are You ?

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

(Anonymous)

For Bankers

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Don't Make it Personal

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

Limits

You can do anything. But not everything.

David Allen

Why We Need Defamation Law

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

Why "Plain English" Won't Work

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Say No

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Seeing Clearly is ...

The power of accurate observation is often mistaken for cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

No More Weekly Wit

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Miller

A Quiet Life ?

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

Malcolm Forbes

Honestly ...

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pursue Excellence

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

The Inescapable

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

Sydney Harris

Awkward Truth

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Hallow it Selectively

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

Oft-forgotten Fact

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

Live !

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Stability is a Chimera

To live is to change, to live well is to change a lot.

Cardinal Newman