Monthly Archives: March, 2003
Too Late for Iraq Discipline
This seems to be the approach to Iraq….If your a good citizen in your community and you beat up the bad guy to stop him mugging someone weaker than him, people will cheer, they will even put the boot in themselves. No one will criticize your aggression or stop you. Don’t beat him 12 years [...]
Neo Conservatists, Making a Mess?
The Neo conservatists in America and the UK (and John Howard) should have pushed to look at an Iraq regime immediately after the 1st gulf war. Doing in now has given Saddam unprecedented media focus, in the Arab world and exacerbate the pre-existing tendency for Muslims and westerners to polarize against each other. The more [...]
Trade in Time Not Money
Generally when you are in business you think about trading in terms of money. The reality however is that it’s time your are trading. You buy time, you sell time. You buy and sell it to do things or build things. For example you need to sell a car. It can be quantified in time [...]
It All Depends On How You Think
If you think you are beaten - you are, If you think you dare not - you don’t, If you’d like to win but think you can’t, It’s almost certain you won’t, If you think you will lose, you’ve lost, For out in this world you will find, Success begins with a fellow’s will, It’s [...]
Persistence
Nothing in the world can take the place or persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will [...]
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