The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.
I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
