Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Steve Jobs
Yearly Archives: 2008
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Have fun. Do good. Make money. These are the things on my scorecard, and the first among them is all three. Today I was talking with some business friends including one fellow who’s trying to decide what to do with the valuable remnants of a business that recently collapsed. He […]
When I signed on with Verizon Wireless this week, I discovered that they take the Net Promoter idea very seriously. In fact, it’s the only question on their new-customer survey: 1. How likely is it that you would recommend Verizon Wireless to a friend or colleague? I clicked on “extremely […]
The New York Times has an interesting article on otherwise smart people spending dollars to save pennies: All around the country, at similar cosmic moments, perfectly sound brains have been seizing up like an old car on a frigid day, particularly in the last few weeks. As Americans attempt to […]
The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler (1835-1902), from The Way of All Flesh
At the back of each issue, Forbes magazine collects a carefully selected set of quotes on a theme. Not long ago they theme was Opinions. Here are a couple of their choices: I don’t like my music, but what is my opinion against that of millions of others? — Frederick […]
The maxim of the British people is “Business as usual.” – Winston Churchill, Speech, 9 November 1914