Eric Johnson

“When financial wizardry and short-term returns trump prudence and long-term value creation, customers and employees suffer.”
― Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

“I can’t emphasize this enough: the quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt. The primary reason people spend decades working in jobs they despise is to pay off their creditors. Financial stress can destroy relationships, threaten your health, and jeopardize your sanity.”
― Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

“Skip business school. Educate yourself.”
― Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

“A Springfield “horseshoe” was an often grotesque open-faced sandwich in which a piece of meat was covered first with french fries and then with a cheeselike sauce. Visitors knowledgeable enough to avoid the local delicacy felt rightfully proud. The statement that Springfield was a city of “bad hotels and worse food” was perhaps apocryphal, but there was no shortage of bars, because drinking was state politicos’ top recreational activity.”
― David J. Garrow, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama – The Definitive Biography of the Formative Years and Forces Behind the 44th President