Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.