1: Imagine taking our seat at a classical music concert. We arrive early, and the orchestra is warming up.  

“And it’s a very unpleasant noise because they’re all doing their own flourishes,” observes U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis in CEO Excellence by  Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra.

“Suddenly, they stop,” Richard describes. “And then out of stage right comes a human being holding nothing more … continue reading

1: The minister said, “It’s now time to say something nice about the deceased,” Charlie Munger told the 2007 USC School of Law graduates.

“And nobody came forward, and nobody came forward, and nobody came forward,” he recounts in  Poor Charlie’s Almanack.

“And finally, one man came up and said, ‘Well, his brother was worse.'”

That’s one way to live our lives.

“Occasionally, you will find a perfect … continue reading