To be trusted will make most men honest.
Feb 072017
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Jan 242017
The mark of the journalist is to confuse truth with accuracy.
Jan 182017
Crime committed on a large enough scale ceases to be criminal. It becomes business as usual, or Realpolitik, or statesmanship.
Jan 112017
A career can be fashioned from a single idea. Two may be tolerated. Three or more are fatal.
Dec 302016
Accidents happen not when alarms fail to go off, but when they go off too often.
Nov 042016
The one indispensable element in starting a business is gross overconfidence.
Oct 112016
Nothing offends like efficacy.
Aug 302016
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, unless the dogs happen to belong to the same professional guild.
Aug 092016
It is often only slightly more trouble to do a thing well than to do it badly.
Jul 072016
The burden of mastery is to feel forever like a fraud.