We are told to judge a man by his best work, as if to judge what is a man’s best work were less a task than to judge the man.
Dec 262023
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Dec 192023
When they say jump, say how much.
Nov 242023
To make a small problem vanish, turn it into a big problem.
Oct 302023
Sometimes you can fix your problems by finding yourself a new one.
Oct 102023
Easy tasks are easier than they look, and hard ones are much, much harder.
Sep 252023
We credit vaccines with what we owe to sanitation, and the rest of medicine with what we owe to vaccines.
Aug 072023
Only a tiny minority of the employees of a large corporation concern themselves, even in an abstract and indirect way, with profit and loss.
Jul 102023
If you must pursue your passion, at least do it dispassionately.
Apr 212023
The great task of industrial civilization was to create leisure, and the great task of post-industrial civilization is to occupy it.
Apr 192023
Proper service demands the extinction of personality, the entire subjugation of oneself to another’s needs and desires. In America, where this runs counter to the national religion, it cannot be had at any price.