War puts the pacific virtues to use, but peace can do nothing with the martial ones.
Mar 222016
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Mar 112016
Occasionally the operation succeeds but the patient dies; far more often it fails but the patient survives.
Feb 182016
The silent partner in every business is Our Policy.
Jan 132016
It is the disappearance of slavery in reality that has caused its profusion in metaphor.
Dec 292015
A moment arrives when it becomes less trouble to perform the task than continue to put it off, and work begins.
Dec 252015
If you want to talk sense, talk shop.
Dec 242015
Paying authors by the word is like paying programmers by the line.
Dec 172015
If one person can destroy your business, you may as well have a job.
Nov 302015
Ambition is a kind of talent.
Nov 202015
If content were king, Santa would work for the elves.