The professionals must set a good…
The professionals must set a good example.
Month: October 2020
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a…
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
Some of my academic friends think…
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
God help us if we ever…
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Become an expert in one fundamental…
Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
People will say I’m an idealist…
People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
There is more similarity in the…
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
If a family is an expression…
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
I think that the young people…
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
As I grew up, I knew…
As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation’s capital, the czar’s winter palace, and the Louvre – except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.