Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

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

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

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.

Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.