Humanity for the first time is burdened with a vast proletariat of literate, ambitious, and demanding people who can’t really do anything.
Aug 072013
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Jul 252013
You haven’t learned a trade until you are surprised to see it done well.
Jul 232013
The good customer never reminds the shopkeeper how good a customer he is.
Jul 122013
Restaurants fail more frequently than gas stations because no one dreams of quitting his corporate job to open a gas station.
May 172013
Whatever the world’s greatest criminal mastermind is doing, it’s sure to be legal.
Mar 252013
Do what you love, provided it is useful and remunerative. Otherwise do something else.
Mar 012013
Science progresses by funeral, engineering by disaster.
Feb 222013
Expertise makes one peremptory, but peremptoriness does not make one expert.
Jan 162013
Bad art leads to bad restaurant service.
Nov 232012
The glass ceiling may be trompe l’oeil.