“Efficiency is doing the thing right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” Peter Drucker Posted on November 29, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“It isn’t a problem if you can give it to someone else.” Dilbert Posted on November 25, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Resentment of the prosperous — whether at home or on the world stage — runs through virtually everything Barack Obama has said and done throughout his life. You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to find the clues. You have to shut your eyes tightly to keep from seeing them everywhere, in every period of his life.” Thomas Sowell Posted on November 24, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.” Yogi Berra Posted on November 23, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken Posted on November 22, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“It’s refreshing that “the most transparent administration in history” should finally display candor about its signature act of social change. Inadvertently, of course. But now we know what lay behind Obama’s smooth reassurances: the arrogance of an academic liberalism that rules in the name of a citizenry it mocks, disdains and deliberately, contemptuously deceives.” Charles Krauthammer Posted on November 21, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Do what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done, and do it that way every time.” Tom Carpenter Posted on November 12, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” Cynthia Ozick Posted on November 11, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Most things in the world can be bought or sold, but not a reputation.” Walt Bettinger Posted on November 10, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“The trend of modern times appears to indicate that citizens of democracies are willing heedlessly to surrender their freedoms to purchase social and economic equality, apparently oblivious of the consequences. And the consequences are that their ability to hold on to and use what they earn and own, to hire and fire at will, to enter freely into contracts, and even to speak their mind is steadily being eroded by governments bent on redistributing private assets and subordinating individual rights to group rights.” Richard Pipe Posted on November 8, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“The American people are today a deeply divided people — on ideology, politics, faith, morality, race, culture. Americans today — and not for the first time — do not really like each other.” Pat Buchanan Posted on November 6, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” Don Marquis Posted on November 4, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.” Hillary Clinton “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Barack Obama Posted on November 3, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“You make your money when you buy, not when you sell.” Boyd Smith Sr. Posted on November 1, 2014 by mplacente Reply