Socrates Says

Manager is a hyphenated word – Man Ager. I am sorry that is not gender neutral but I am sure you know what I mean. Aging a person is from having to depend on others. Aging is from waiting for others to “get it” especially if you think that you have it. What is terribly […]

From my days in the Systems business are these beauties. From a consultant who worked for IBM as a project manager. Ø Nine men impregnating the same woman cannot deliver a baby in one month. Ø If it ain’t in writing it don’t exist. Two important lessons – first is that putting more people on […]

Mises said in a lecture in the 1960s: “The government and the journalists who were writing for the government told us about this ‘deficit spending.’ It was wonderful! It was considered something that would improve conditions in the whole country. But if you translate this into more common language, the language of the uneducated, then […]

With the beginning of the political conventions I thought it would be instructive to return to Milton Friedman. Free to Choose was written in 1980 and reprinted in 1990. It talks about the changing opinion of socialism and capitalism. But it gives warning which had we heeded it we would never be where we are […]

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Justice Louis […]

The more I practice, the luckier I get. Jerry Barber   It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot   Only that which is temporary endures. French Proverb