Archives for September, 2010
Tweet “Just for the record, the person who, by this metric, suffers the most crippling ennui on the planet, boring with 51 r’s, is Heather S. of Waterloo, Ontario.” – Gene Weingarten on Facebook
Tweet “Two things go straight to a man’s heart, bullets and gold.” – Geoffrey Lewis (source)
Tweet There are three rules to becoming a billionaire in business. First the business rules, then the story: Sell at a profit. You have to sell at a profit. You can’t sell at a loss and make it up in volume. Any fool can reach 10M in sales by simply selling $10 for $1. Granted [...]
Tweet I said Georgia, Ooh Georgia, no peace I find Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind Other arms reach out to me Other eyes smile tenderly Still in peaceful dreams I see The road leads back to you - Ray Charles
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Tweet “For once, the culture of instant gratification that we’ve so come to live by has been neatly swept aside and tethered back… for as well as bringing meticulous glamour back to womenswear, Tom Ford is bringing back something even bigger: anticipation. Fed up with the Internet age of public consumption Ford has kept the [...]
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Tweet “In today’s ‘free’ economy, we have become so used to getting things at no apparent cost to us, that many people actually start to believe that companies doing work for nothing is sustainable. At the end of the day, the sad fact is that money does need to change hands at some point because [...]
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Tweet The false axiom “work harder not smarter” came up in conversation today. Which reminded me of this paragraph I did on the book Rework called When to Apply Business Advice: Sometimes advice is populist, but there is a logical flaw. A company who follows the infamous “work smarter not harder” quickly falls to a [...]
Tweet “I guess I’d put it this way. Every society has to engird capitalism in a restraining value system, or else it turns nihilistic and out of control. The Germans have a Christian Democratic set of institutions, enforced by law. The Swedes have their egalitarianism. Since the days of Jonathan Edwards, we have developed a [...]
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Tweet UPDATE: The Chronicle posted a story on 9/7/10: For-profit colleges fighting proposal to cut aid, Feds’ plan to limit loans for programs with high-default rates called unfair. Which lists repayment rates as follows: Everest institute – 16% American Intercontinental University – 22 % Art Institute of Houston – 37% University of Houston Downtown – 39% HCC Central [...]
Tweet “This Don’t Think manifesto is pure bullshit, designed to tap in to your growing fear as a human of a loss of identity, of a homogenisation of life, but by adhering to it, you are collaborating, joining the mass of visual noise but contributing nothing. It’s a stroke of marketing genius, selling essentially joke [...]
Tweet “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” - Carl Sagan
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Tweet “Every good-to-great company embraced what we came to call the Stockdale Paradox: You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” - Stockdale
Tweet This is an archive copy of the original post on Chron.com. Please comment on the Chron site if you wish to comment (encouraged!) I wrote about student loans and bankruptcy earlier this year in “Bankruptcy and the Unforgiving Servants” on the Chron blog. Today via a facebook link, I was pointed to this protest [...]