Every city, regardless of its provisions for the poor, has always featured importunate public begging.
Dec 042023
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Sep 212023
In any reference to “X-figures”, the first figure is 1.*
*If it is “mid X-figures”, the first figure is 2. If it is “high X-figures”, the first figure is 5.
Aug 312023
“I’m not concerned about short-term fluctuations”: I have lost some money
“I’m in this for the long haul”: I am determined to lose a lot of money
Jul 052023
Money troubles begin in earnest when you get some.
May 092023
Retail evil-doers are often after money; wholesalers are always after something else.
Feb 022023
Where scarcity does not exist, it is invented.
Jan 312023
The royal road to wealth is not to make money but to capture it.
Dec 212022
Many things work on a small scale and fail on a large one; crime is exactly the opposite.
Nov 152022
To lie, cheat, and steal may be optimally adaptive, provided one maintains a reputation for never lying, cheating, or stealing.
Oct 212022
To want your name known is innocuous, even healthy. To want your face known is when sickness sets in.