The Profit Prophet

I love lists of things...and this one makes me stop and think...hope it does for you too? Number 10:------Life is sexually transmitted. Number 9: Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Number 8: Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich. Number 7: Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. Number 6: Some people are like a Slinky....not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs. Number 5: Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals, dying of nothing. Number 4: All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. Number 3: Why does a slight tax increase cost you $800.00, and a substantial tax cut saves you $30.00? Number 2: In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world ...

Someone just contacted me about a quotation I posted some time ago about humility and paying homage, and they asked me about the citation. OK, the quotation is actually mine, and it is derived from Lao Tzu ’s Tao Te Ching Chapter 66 : "That whereby the rivers and seas are able to receive the homage and tribute of all the valley streams, is their skill in being lower than they;--it is thus that they are the kings of them all. So it is that the sage (ruler), wishing to be above men, puts himself by his words below them, and, wishing to be before them, places his person behind them." Here is my paraphrasing: “All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest.” --Jeffrey Fry Some have accused me of stealing from the great master, and I thought I had not. He is talking about leadership, I am talking about humility (though both are intertwined). I had been saying my river quotation for over 30 years, and could not remember where I first learned it! I has to be when I was i...