Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
Sophocles
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it... →
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders... →
Theodore C. Sorensen
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Aaron Sorkin
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for... →
The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop.... →
Andrew Ross Sorkin
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that... →
The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by... →