We live in both a material economy and a pride economy,
“Like a man walking backwards along a path, erasing his footsteps with a broom, he had tried, through contradiction, negation, paradox, unreliable narration and every other method he could devise, to cancel the tracks left by his words and to release his writing from the wretched positivity of affirming anything at all. He”
― Lost for Words
― Lost for Words
“Corporate cultures can be arrayed along the same three dimensions as national cultures: universalistic-particularistic, egalitarian-hierarchical, and individualistic-communitarian. Once”
― The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers
― The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
“The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.”
― The Plot Against America
― The Plot Against America
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
― Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
Steve’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Steve’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Steve
Lists liked by Steve



























