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.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

People who never get carried away should be.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.