If you want to build a business, build the people – Brownie Wise, 1913-1992, Tupperware saleswoman “Can you keep a secret?” “Me and Tupperware. We seal tight — nothing’s getting out,” my wife Jillian said, grinning, right after I found out she was pregnant. When I heard Tupperware Corporation was
Book title: The Old Man and the SeaISBN: 9780099908401Author: Ernest HemingwayPublisher: Arrow You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved
‘I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.’ – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, the 16th president of the United States of America. I’m a slow walker, and if I don’t start picking up the pace, I’m going to die, die and die. I don’t mean to be macabre. That’s
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings – Stephen King, author I always get sleep paralysis whenever I’m running a high fever — complete with hallucinations and zero control over my body. It feels like I’m covered in needles, with a core
‘If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.’ – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), American writer. I drafted this column at 4.01 am
‘When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.’ – Steve Jobs (1955 –2011), co-founder of Apple. The best part of this job? That’s easy: readers. Some days, readers like me; other days, they can’t stand me; sometimes, they want me to quit the business and get a job knitting
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later, in uglier ways. – Sigmund Freud Book title: The Silent PatientISBN: 978-1-250-30169-7Author: Alex MichaelidesPublisher: Penguin Random House US Would you judge me if I said I did not see the ending of “The Silent Patient” coming?
Left handers don’t just write differently, we also think differently. – Anonymous Only about one in ten people in the world is left-handed — but the percentage is much higher just in my immediate family. My father, brother, wife, kids and I are all lefties, and proudly so. Over the
If you caught my business column on Wednesday (Aug 7), today’s piece builds on that discussion. Sally Douglass, an economic postgraduate and the second-fastest swimmer in American swimming events, has always been great with numbers. But before she enrolled at Columbia University, she never considered swimming itself was a math
I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. — Michael Phelps, former American swimmer and most successful and decorated Olympian of all time, holds
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