You can, but it won't.................

 

........................Frustration is bargaining with reality, hoping it will change.

-Farnum Street

Be wary of bargains................

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.” 

-John Ruskin

Be generous with change...................

........................and brave with your business.

Generosity in terms of free work,  constant discounts, and plenty of uncompensated overtime isn't really generous.   Because you can't sustain it.  Because soon you'll be breaking the promises you made.
     On the other hand, showing generosity with your bravery, your empathy, and your respect is generous indeed.
     What you customers want from you is for you to care enough to change them.
     To create tension that leads to forward motion.
     To exert emotional labor that will open them up to what's possible.
     And if you need to charge a lot to pull that off, it's still a bargain.

-Seth Godin,  This Is Marketing:  You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See

How much..........................................

.....................................................is "smarter" worth?

Jetboy........................

................is honing in on the simple things in life.  Isn't it funny how often the "simple things" are also the good things?

Is this a great country, or what..............?

from   via

An absolute..........................

Socrates' great gift to society was that he brought morals from the shifty atmosphere of quasidivine bargains, frauds, and compromises into the blazing daylight of ordinary honorable transactions between men and women striving to be honest.  To Socrates, morality was an absolute or it was nothing.  If an act was unjust, it was always and everywhere so and must never be done.  Whatever the provocation, a man or woman must never act unjustly.

-Paul Johnson,  Socrates:  A Man For Our Times

I may stop in before lunch....................

thank thee kindly