You haven’t learned a trade until you are surprised to see it done well.
Jul 252013
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Jul 232013
The good customer never reminds the shopkeeper how good a customer he is.
Jul 122013
Restaurants fail more frequently than gas stations because no one dreams of quitting his corporate job to open a gas station.
May 172013
Whatever the world’s greatest criminal mastermind is doing, it’s sure to be legal.
Mar 252013
Do what you love, provided it is useful and remunerative. Otherwise do something else.
Mar 012013
Science progresses by funeral, culture by massacre, engineering by disaster.
Feb 222013
Expertise makes one peremptory, but peremptoriness does not make one expert.
Jan 162013
Bad art leads to bad restaurant service.
Nov 232012
The glass ceiling may be trompe l’oeil.
Nov 202012
Ask if you do your job well, but first ask if it ought to be done at all.