Employees see poker chips as money: entrepreneurs see money as poker chips.
Jul 272020
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Jun 182020
A good product fills a need. A great product creates a need that can never be satisfied.
Jun 052020
The businessman wants peace, which is good for his business; and the intellectual wants war, which is good for his.
May 122020
Three’s a crowd — in love, in war, in software development.
May 072020
Those who believe that society can be reengineered rarely have much engineering experience.
Apr 222020
Competence dwarfs all other virtues, and nearly every moral system ever devised aims first at disguising that fact.
Apr 142020
The eternal Manichean struggle is between not good and evil, but sloth and industry.
Apr 092020
It is an insult to be paid by the word.
Apr 032020
A writer is a person who has turned the fact that his bark is worse than his bite into a professional qualification.
Mar 242020
To become expert in something is the only way to learn that you know nothing about anything else.