The Businessman and the Wise Woman
July 16, 2025
197 – July 16 “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent, that is to triumph over old age.”—Thomas B. Aldrich “Getting
197 – July 16 “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent, that is to triumph over old age.”—Thomas B. Aldrich “Getting
195 – July 14 “Just because you made a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.”—Georgette Mosbacher The First Law of a Thousand Times is
194 – July 13 “Fall down seven times; get up eight.”—Japanese Proverb My secretary, Joanne, was terrific. Bright, thoughtful, energetic—I hired her on the spot.
193 – July 12 “It’s no good running a pig farm badly for thirty years while saying ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet
192 – July 11 “If you want more, pay more.”—Stella Adler We’ve all heard stories of the “overnight success”—and the one, fabulous break that meant
191 – July 10 “I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions
189 – July 8 “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”—Albert Camus “Oh, I really
188 – July 7 “Help thy brother’s boat across, and lo! Thine own has reached the shore.”—Hindu Proverb I sat hunched in my chair at
187 – July 6 “When a feller says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.”—Abe Martin Sometimes people owe
186 – July 5 “That’s one thing I’ll say for The Beatles, we always honored our agreements. For years, every time we had a record
