Thought For The Day

Some people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
- Ben Franklin -

Thought For The Day

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- Ben Franklin -

The Best Advice I Ever Got

I read a very interesting article in the current issue of Fortune magazine, entitled The Best Advice I Ever Got. It was a series of interviews with business executives and most of it was pretty good. There was one in particular that stood out because it was the same way I would answer the question.

The Chairman and CEO of IBM, Sam Palmisano, said that the best advice he ever got wasn't really advice at all. It was just observing how successful people acted and treated other people. He observed that the most successful businessmen he knew never made themselves the center of attention. They listened and learned. The lessons were unspoken; they led by example.

In my own life, everytime I have reached a point where things could have gone either way, in the Navy, in Vietnam, at work, or in my personal life, there has always been someone there to show me the way. And most of the directions were unspoken, it was done by someone simply leading by setting a good example; doing the right things, the right way. Most, if not all, didn't intentionally steer me in the right direction, they were just good people who led by example. They didn't know they were doing it, and I'll never see some of them again, and I'll never be able to thank them. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

Thought For The Day

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is A, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein -

Thought For The Day

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
- Albert Einstein -

Poem For The Day

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson -

Thought For The Day

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
- Norman Vincent Peale -

Thought For The Day

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert Ingersoll -

Reader's Comments

This past week, The Cape Cod Times ran a story online about a man named Windle who embezzeled $12 million from a company in Natick, and $300,000 from a church in Harwich, then built a $1.9 million house in Harwich Port. He got caught and is now in jail awaiting trial.

The best part of the online edition of the paper is that readers can comment, and their comments are posted for all to see. One reader chose to put his comments in the form of a poem:

There once was a man named Windle,
Whose want it was to swindle.
He'd done it before,
But he'll do it no more,
For his chances now will dwindle.