Socrates Says

In another post nearby I talk about the internet as a mode of contact with the customers.  I get a lot of push back on this from distributors and dealers. They say that they will lose control of the customer. I couldn’t disagree more. In the equipment world let’s suppose we have a market capture […]

Have you noticed how the increase in productivity has caused many of us to have fewer man hours of support per dollar sold? This is a phenomenon of business that has really grown in the past thirty years. The US GDP is seriously dependent on personal spending which has grown as a result of productivity […]

Another great quote is from Eleanor Roosevelt: a woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is, until she gets into hot water The time is now.

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton   The phrase “working mother” is redundant. Jane Sellman   I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m       not dumb … and I’m     also not […]

The latest iteration of the nonsense is the labor strife in Chicago. Imagine the highest teacher wages in the country at $75,000/year, about $20,000 higher than the average in the country, with a high school graduation rate of 50%. No wonder there is a desire for teacher performance in the new agreement. This morning on […]

There are four stages to the life of a man. The first is where he believes in Santa Claus The second is where he no longer believes in Santa Claus The third is where he is Santa Claus The fourth is where he looks like Santa Claus The time is now.