Secret of Amazon’s Success
We don’t have one big advantage so we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.
β Jeff Bezos
Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead.
β David Farragut, Union Admiral during the American Civil War
On this date in 1862, David Farragut commanded a Union flotilla past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on his way to capture New Orleans. It wouldn’t be until more than two years later, at the Battle of Mobile Bay, when he would utter his famous phrase.
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
β H. L. Menken
Magic is a vanishing art.
— Bumper Sticker
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
β SΓΈren Kierkegaard
A job done by half is never done right.
β Mom