Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.