Something To Think About Archive

Coleridge wrote: “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

The Administration’s recent “investment” in Intel is justified by Howard Lutnick saying Biden gave them $11 billion in grants and “got nothing for it” while Trump is at least getting stock for their $9 billion. How about we don’t waste any taxpayer money trying to pick winners and losers, which is essentially nationalizing them and socialistic. Remember Obama’s $528 million wasted on Solyndra? The lipstick for their pig is that they are creating a sovereign wealth fund. That’s great, except sovereign wealth funds are established investment vehicles not ad hoc one-off decisions. And, with the deficits the U.S. is running, it’s akin to you or me buying stock using our credit cards that we have no hope of ever paying down off.

Entrepreneur and Fortune 500 CEO John Sculley claims that “The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."

Spike Lee "We can't rely on anyone but ourselves to define our existence, to shape the image of ourselves.”

Jim Ryan "Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going."

We enjoyed seeing that while Google's Deep Mind AI may have scored a gold metal at the recent mathematical Olympiad; 26 students, including four Americans, out scored AI in the competition. There is hope for humanity yet.

Ogden Nash defined middle age as, "when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else"

La Rochefoucauld said: “We all have the strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”

It’s been said that “The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.”

Organizational consultant Walter Bennis believed that “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision int reality.”

Thomas Jefferson said: “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.”

We’re constantly amazed by so-called freedom fighters and social justice warriors who commit murder and/or mayhem proudly proclaiming that their cause is just, as did Luigi Mangione killer of United Health CEO Brian Thompson, and then they plead ‘Not Guilty.’

“Labor Day” has been defined as “When people take a day off from work to celebrate working by not working.”

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale said, “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

Actress Helen Hayes, at age 83, once observed that “The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”

It’s been said that “Everything is always impossible before it works.”

Former Harvard University President Derek Bok said, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

Rather than picking fights with our neighbors to the north and south, Ronald Reagan believed in a strong North America, stating that “We are neighbors by geography, but more than that, we must be partners by choice – in prosperity, in progress, and in peace.” That certainly doesn’t mean open borders where bad actors from all over the world can enter the country, but it does mean that we shouldn’t be threatening to make them 51st states and that freer trade between the three countries does more good than harm.