AOTBE
AOTBE All Other Things Being Equal A useful phrase for discussing...
Category: Maxims
Rituals and Routines
The difference between a routine and a ritual is.... about a generation. Discovered here, and...
Giving and Receiving
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and receive without forgetting. Attributed to many sources. So in...
Markets and Morality
"It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan)...
Les Wisdom
"You don’t get in life what you want, you get in life what you are." Les Brown Motivational...
Alfonso X on Aging
"Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends." Alfonso X of...
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her...
Pets (Churchill Quote)
Chaplin "Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an...
Tell Me
Don’t tell me what you “think,” just tell me what’s in your portfolio. Nassim Taleb in Skin in the...
Russia (Churchill Quote)
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Winston...
