Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
- Groucho Marx
Great Men think alike... He did a few decades before and I reflect now...

"We all know that life isn't fair because, if life were fair, we'd have:
The finances of Donald Trump
The wit of Woody Allen
The physique of Sylvester Stallone
And, the selfless devotion of Mother Teresa.

But, we all know life isn't fair because most of us have:
The finances of Mother Teresa
The wit of Sylvester Stallone
The physique of Woody Allen
And, the selfless devotion of Donald Trump."

- some smart alec

"Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper -- Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition. In 1984, I severed all connections with business for a life of isolation and anonymity, convinced I was making a great bargain by trading money for time, position for liberty, and ego for contentment -- that the beasts were securely caged.'"

Not a bad bargain is it. The knack is to get the unit of the trade in as much quantity as possible to buy out the beasts depending on how much each of them is plaguing you.

"'The better an organization is, the less obvious it is,' - Dee Hock

Horror gripped the heart of a World War-I soldier, as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing overhis head, the soldier asked his Lieutenant if he couldgo out into the man's land between the trenches tobring his fallen comrade back. "You can go," said theLieutenant, "but I don't think it will be worth it. Your friend is probably dead and you may throw yourlife away." The Lieutenant's words didn't matter, andthe soldier went anyway. Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoisted him onto his shoulder and broughthim back to their company's trench. As the two of them tumbled in together to the bottom of the trench, the officer checked the wounded soldier, then lookedkindly at his friend. "I told you it wouldn't beworth it," he said. "Your friend is dead and you aremortally wounded." "It was worth it, Sir," said thesoldier. "What do you mean by worth it?" responded theLieutenant. "Your friend is dead." "Yes Sir,” the privateanswered, "but it was worth it because when I gotto him, he was still alive and I had the satisfactionof hearing him say.... "Jim... I knew you'dcome."

Would I die for anybody else? No. Does that make me insensitive? or a Coward? or a tyrant ...
Me thinks doesnt matter. I still wont.

ESPN-Star deny sacking Sidhu: "'It is only after I left cricket that learnt the true meaning of self-belief. I started meditating for long hours. That is when all my ideas strike me,' Sidhu told rediff.com in a telephone interview on Tuesday morning from his home in Patiala. 'I keep a notebook next to me in which I write all the pure and pristine thoughts that I reflect on while meditating. That is what you hear in the commentary.' "

How can he have a fan following? He has as much grace as an drunk octopus doing Salsa with a porcupine.

My highest rated person professionally was typically one who would fill two conditions: someone I would love to work for and some one I would call first, if I ever got into my own business.

I love that statement and there are few I have in mind.