Posts by Robert Ringer

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.” – “Gordon Gekko” in the movie Wall Street…

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” – Winston Churchill The latest in an endless stream of non-events elevated to the status of sensationalistic national news is bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman’s getting caught in the N-Word Trap. Can we learn anything worthwhile from this…

“We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.” – B.B. King There is much truth to the axiom “No one knows what goes on behind closed doors.” Why do we assume that people in high positions don’t have realproblems? Lacking perfection ourselves, I believe…

“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.” – Francis Bacon While channel-surfing recently, I happened to catch a glimpse of Tony Dungy sitting on the…

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” – Everett Dirksen Remember Stephen Wilkinson, who, back in January of this year, thought he had won a $102,000 jackpot on a 25-cent Wheel of Fortune slot machine at the Philadelphia Park Casino? “Not so fast, Stevo baby,” said the casino‘s…

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sydney Smith When I was a teenager, one of my good friends was “Gary.” Gary was one of those kids who were targets of the taunters and teasers. Even nice…

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” – Anne Frank I’ve had an emotional attachment to Sylvester Stallone and his Rocky films since 1977. It…

 “Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.” – William Penn Remember how, a couple years back, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (known to his closest friends as Mahmoud Muttonchops) came out and said that there was no holocaust? That’s right, it never happened. The films of those hideous corpses being bulldozed into mass graves…

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.” – Albert Einstein I think it was Groucho Marx who used to tell the joke about a guy standing on a street corner…

“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.” – Aristotle I’ve always thought I’d be a much smarter tyrant than Saddam Hussein. Now I’m sure of it. When I watched his executioners place a rope around his neck back on December 30, I have to admit I was thinking, “I told…

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” – Benjamin Franklin Do you get tired of being interrupted by phone calls? By the ding-dong of your e-mail program? By “crises” that need your immediate attention? Do you become irritated by people who don’t get back to you when…