Insight for Current and Future Business Leaders

“The character of a man is known from his conversations.” Menander (342 BC – 291 BC), Greek dramatist – “When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.” Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04 – “Much learning does not teach understanding.” Heraclitus (ca 535 BC – 475 [...]

“We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.” [like cornerstone architectural products] Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), a Latin writer of maxims – “When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.” Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c. 1610 – 1643), [...]

“Cui Bono Fuerit” (“Whom did it benefit?”) Gaius Cassius Longinus (before 85 BC – October 42 BC), a Roman senator, the prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, and the brother in-law of Brutus – “He is great who confers the most benefits.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), American essayist, poet, and leader [...]

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994), German American poet, novelist, and short story writer – “After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.” Author Unknown – “Making the simple complicated [...]

“Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.” David Letterman (1947 – ) – “Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.” Ray Simard – “When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and [...]