Men sometimes stumble into vast fortunes, despite manifest incompetence, bad character, and borderline imbecility. Never give up.
Jun 012015
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
May 112015
Robes always dignify begging — saffron for the Buddhist monk, black for the college president.
Apr 012015
You used to have to pay people to wear sandwich boards.
Mar 192015
A few bucks: In American parlance, a sum either a great deal more or a great deal less than you wish to represent.
Mar 132015
It’s all fun and games until someone gets paid.
Feb 162015
A thing got rid of is a joy forever.
Jan 052015
Success, n. A not entirely unbroken record of failure.
Dec 222014
To be paid for opinions corrupts; and to be paid for particular opinions corrupts absolutely.
Nov 182014
Better a handout than a sermon, and better neither than both.
Oct 312014
The joy of money lies less in what one does than in what one might do.