Steve Schwartz

“The root of credit is the Latin word credo, ‘I believe”
― Robert Skidelsky, Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

“The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“Every happy man should have some one with a little hammer at his door to knock and remind him that there are unhappy people, and that, however happy he may be, life will sooner or later show its claws, and some misfortune will befall him -- illness, poverty, loss, and then no one will see or hear him, just as he now neither sees nor hears others. But there is no man with a hammer, and the happy go on living, just a little fluttered with the petty cares of every day, like an aspen-tree in the wind -- and everything is all right.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

“Corporate cultures can be arrayed along the same three dimensions as national cultures: universalistic-particularistic, egalitarian-hierarchical, and individualistic-communitarian. Once”
― Jocelyn Davis, The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom for Modern Managers