May 2

Maxim May 2, 2013

Posted by Simon

“A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.”

Frank Rizzo

Mayor of Philadelphia

1920-1991

Apr 25

Maxim April 25, 2013

Posted by Simon

“Flattery is the lubricating oil of life.”

from  Catherine the Great

by Robert Massie

Apr 18

Maxim April 18, 2013

Posted by Simon

“Salve lucrum! Lucrum gaudium!”

“Hail profit! Profit is joy!”

Roman saying discovered at Pompeii

From Pompeii

a novel by Robert Harris

Apr 11

Maxim April 11, 2013

Posted by Simon

“I do most of my thinking in the morning.

At my age I run out of brain long before I run out of day.”

Simon Burrow

Apr 4

Maxim April 4, 2013

Posted by Simon

“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

Oscar Wilde

1856 – 1900

Mar 28

Maxim March 28, 2013

Posted by Simon

“The scientific method is nothing more than a series of rules

to keep us from lying to each other.”

Ken Norris

Mar 21

Maxim March 21, 2013

Posted by Simon

“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation,

the four pillars of our prosperity, are most thriving

when left most free to individual enterprise.”

President Thomas Jefferson

Mar 14

Maxim March 14, 2013

Posted by Simon

“Some things are so stupid, only

an intellectual could believe them.” 

George Orwell

American Author

Mar 7

Maxim March 7, 2013

Posted by Simon

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience.  Take the experience first, the cash will come later.”

Harold Geneen

CEO of ITT Corp. and author of

Managing

(one of the best management books I have ever read)

 

 

Feb 28

Maxim February 28, 2013

Posted by Simon

“Bankers are bullfrogs;

lawyers are lizards.”

Paul Theroux

The London Embassy

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