The modern corporation has turned business — a glamorous pursuit, full of intrigue, danger, and deceit — into bureaucratic drudgery. This is its unpardonable sin.
Sep 092021
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Sep 032021
There are so many ways to go wrong that every well-made thing is a miracle, to be regarded with reverence, even awe.
Aug 032021
True believers make the best publicists, and they work cheap.
Jul 052021
If you hire for competence, it is still likely that you will get incompetents; if you hire for anything else, it is certain.
May 122021
The micromanager constantly remarks his hatred of micromanaging, as if he were driven to it, as a last resort, by the sheer fecklessness of his underlings.
May 112021
Sports are dead, and so is the water cooler to congregate by to discuss them.
Apr 212021
Billionaires start making trouble when they stop making money.
Apr 202021
Never give up what you can postpone indefinitely.
Mar 242021
The more features a product acquires, the worse it becomes at what it was originally designed to do.
Mar 112021
Law of Insufficient Time: It’s always later than you think, even after accounting for the Law of Insufficient Time.