While taking a coffee break from the last of the Christmas errands, my wife and I talked about the things we’ve learned from life since our undergraduate days when we first met. Here’s the list I wrote on the paper napkin:
1. Everything will take longer to complete than your original estimate.
2. You can think it. Sometimes you can even say it; but you never, ever, put it in an email and send it out.
3. Company vision statements are always a load of baloney.
4. Keep your eye on the ball.
5. The sunroof is worth the extra money.
6. Switching to 1% milk makes more of an impact than you think.
7. Dogs are worth all the fur on the floor.
8. Captain Kirk is way cooler than Picard.
9. Al Gore makes more money off global warming than Dick Cheney ever made off Halliburton.
10. If you have to lay off people, get rid of the corporate jet.
11. You can never go wrong by keeping your mouth shut and nodding knowingly.
12. Save an additional 10% above what you’re putting into your 401k. You still won’t notice it and you’ll be rich at the end.
13. Illiquid assets are for wimps.
14. A luxury once tasted, becomes a necessity.
15. Flukes count.
16. There are three reasons people do things-
- The reason they tell themselves they did it.
- The reason they tell the world they did it.
- And then there’s the real reason.
17. You can’t get what you want, until you know what you want. It’s worth the extra twenty minutes to figure it out.
18. Trust your intuition.
19. We cannot emphasis this enough- in the kitchen, Clean as you go.
20. Call you mother.
JP
5 comments:
Money can’t buy everything; but the things it can’t buy are the things you don’t want anyway.
Not only will everything take longer than the original estimate, rest assured it will COST more than the original estimate.
Everything before the "but" in a sentence is a lie.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, It’s a duck!
You can be efficient with things.
You can't be efficient with people.
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