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John E. Howery

Associate Professor

of Business

Lindsey Wilson College

270-384-8127

howeryj@lindsey.edu

 

frog upon frog

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time,

and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald -

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A young manager, unskilled at hosting, gave a dinner for his customers at a fine New York restaurant.  When the wine steward handed him the cork he looked at it in perplexity for several seconds; and then he made a decision, as all good managers will –

he bit off a piece and ate it.

– L. Baldridge -

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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.”

                                        - Sydney Harris -

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“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and

politics to mere technique.”

- James MacGregor Burns -

You should have education enough so that you won’t have to

look up to people;

and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to

look down on people.

- M. L. Boren –

“If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don’t know about economics.”

- Luther H. Hodges -

 

 

 

Eighty-eight percent of statistics are misleading.

-      Ziggy  -

 

 

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.

- Disraeli -

Today’s economic theories are accurate, sound, and functional. It’s too bad politicians are all too dumb to use them correctly.

(read that somewhere)

 

But then one must consider à à

I once ran a search for the phrase “in the long run” in a downloaded economics text.  It appeared 147 times in 397 pages, nearly always as part of an explanation as to why what was being explained didn’t quite fit the theory at hand. 

Well, here’s a theory that always works out to be true; in the long run we’re all dead.

 

 

 

About elections – It seems to me we accept way too many opinions from the media folk, and don’t ask of them that they uncover the who, what when, where and how of things (that stuff that used to make up good political reporting?).  I really don’t care how well respected the network anchor supposedly is.  I don’t think it is her or his role to suggest when or which candidate should get in or out of a race, or who their running mate should or should not be.