December 2007
19 posts
The Internet Presents Clark and Michael →
Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful
Two years ago, Isobella Jade was down on her luck, living on a friend’s couch and struggling to make it as a fashion model when she had the idea of writing a book about her experience as a short woman trying to break into the modeling business.
Unable to afford a computer, Ms. Jade, 25, began cadging time on a laptop at the Apple store in...
Earnings are whatever they are, but dividends are reality.
John Bogle, Fortune interview
Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. The purchasers view the current good earnings as equivalent to “earning power” and assume that prosperity is synonymous with safety.
B. Graham, The Intelligent Investor, p. 516
Wear Palettes →
courtesy cpluv
WatchAmerica is today the strongest, the most influential, and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
Eisenhower’s farewell...
WatchMat Gleason on Art
WatchFrontline: House of Saud (2005)
DubCorp
If the market potential for a medium to small sized online condom site is $1 -$2 million dollars per year, then the trick is not to try and become the #1 site, which is extremely difficult, but rather to find 25 categories and repeat what you already know how to do. Because for people like me, beating the average guys is easy, it’s beating the one guy who’s better than me that’s damn near...
Finally! Another angry capitalist on tumblr!
Why is it that the exorbitant salaries, golden parachutes and record profits of corporations are justified in the name of capitalism, but these very same people and corporations are protected from the consequences of their greed through federal welfare?
Why are the banks getting $100 billion in bailouts when it was their greed that placed them in this position?
Postponing the inevitable
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WatchLife after the acquisition
— dick
Dick used to do standup comedy before he turned to starting companies. Maybe he’s headed back to standup. This is hysterical. — via fred-wilson
“You’re defined as much by what you are as what you’re not.”
… well i do feel as if i still own it … I don’t feel any different. Money doesn’t make that much sense to me, you’re doing what you think is right to do. Money, what the hell are you going to do with it, when you get a lot of money you’re going to have to give it away …
Al Uetschi, Founder FlightSafety 8 min 36 sec in
Every Workday Needs a Game Plan
Mr. Ellwood advises clients to imagine that they have nothing to do the next day: no e-mail, no phone calls, no meetings, no specific plans. Then he asks: What can you do to accomplish a long-term goal you want to achieve one month from now? This forces people to disentangle themselves from busywork, he said, and to focus on what is really important to their...