January 2010
18 posts
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
– ~J.D Salinger (via theimpossiblecool) — J.D. Salinger died today.
Jan 28th
357 notes
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picasso
Jan 24th
“Oh so you hate your job? Good news pal, there’s a support group for that,...”
– Drew Carey
Jan 24th
“We give new people 2 to 4 weeks of training every year. A friend of mine once...”
– Jim Koch, founder Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
Jan 24th
“Young boys should never be sent to bed, they always wake up a day older.”
– Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland
Jan 24th
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s...”
– Conan O’Brien on his final Tonight Show
Jan 24th
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
– Peter Drucker
Jan 22nd
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
– Peter Drucker
Jan 22nd
“More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.”
Jan 21st
“Lots of people want to ride w/ you in the limo, but what you want is someone who...”
– Oprah Winfrey
Jan 21st
“No, I’m not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending...”
– shitmydadsays
Jan 19th
Jan 18th
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The Peter Principle →
is the principle that In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their “level of incompetence”), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. Peter’s Corollary states that “in...
Jan 14th
“Economics, where they tell you something you already know in a way you don’t...”
– Jeffrey Bergstrand, Notre Dame Finance Professor
Jan 14th
le trou Normand →
or “the Norman hole”, is a pause between meal courses in which diners partake of a glassful of calvados in order to improve the apetite and make room for the next course. — From The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
Jan 14th
Sisyphean  →
Endless and unavailing, as labor or a task. — Sisyphus was a king punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
Jan 5th
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the...”
– Angela Monet
Jan 5th
“Important: if something is important, say why and to whom. Use sparingly.”
– The Economist Style Guide
Jan 4th