Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.