the emperor has no clothes

hubris

 

on showbiz

"The safest thing is to take a chance."
- Elaine May [born 1932]

off the rack

comedy chronicle

buy and sell businesses

https://www.bizbuysell.com

Inflation

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
- Adam Smith [1723-1790]

admitted reluctantly to university

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

- Thomas Watson Jr [1914-1993]

you don't have a solid and promising business

"You're A Want-A-Preneur."
- Mark Cuban [born 1958]

on ageism

 

Le Hôtel de Crillon, Paris

"Is she too young for this? On the contrary. It's really about her people keeping up with her velocity. She's a Big Kahuna in the hospitality industry."
- Tony Chi [Wiki profile here] on Sonia Cheng [born 1980], proprietor bespoke hotelier behemoth Rosewood.

"the secret is humility"

Founded as a maker of shrines and temples in Japan in 578, Kongo Kumi is the world's oldest continually operated business. Other old companies here.

Neutron

“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” 

 – Jack Welch

what did medieval monks do all day?

first mass-market artist

- Albrecht Dürer [1471-1528], Self-Portrait

on entrepreneurism

"You work 80hrs/week so you don't have to work 40hrs/week."

extraneous

More than 40% of workers feel (and corroborated by hard statistics) that their work is meaningless and doesn't contribute to the bottom-line.

Liam makes tea

annoyance correlates with success

on teamwork

"You need to have people around you who say that you don't have any clothes on."
- Michael Bloomberg

one finger salute

"The reason that our sport isn't popular in America is that fans can't afford a hotdog or bathroom break as results can change instantly, determitavely given low scores."
- Billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, former Formula 1 chief, who insists that his successor needs to be a very good used car salesman.