All your anxious care, all your unwinking vigilance, is necessary to preserve you from your great adversary.

I lived both with no belief in a higher power and I lived with a so-called religious belief in a higher power that was purely a dead religion. It was just mouth music.

In geographic rollups, it's more important to hold on to key employees — and customers — than to realize efficiencies quickly.

This is a letter from Andreas Goeding, provost of Werio, a town in Gothland, to the then secretary of the archives of state. The writer’s narrative is as follows:— / “When I was in Saxony, in the year 1687, a fortunate accident enabled me to discover the circumstances accompanying the melancholy end of Gustavus Adolphus. This great monarch had rode out for the simple purpose of reconnoîtring the enemy, attended by a single servant.[…]”