Comments on: Some more quotes from my book

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:25:06 +0000

Thanks Sham, I’m glad you like the book :o)

By: Sham

Sham — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:43:24 +0000

Hi,
You have a great blog here. I took a glimpse of your book too. Really good. It offered some useful and practicle advice. The illustrations were cool too!
Very nice of you to publish the whole book online as well.

Thank You
Sham

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:33:52 +0000

Ron: That’s a great story! I’ll have to research that one some more!

Deirdre: Great post – and an interesting cultural difference. It seems that work hasn’t yet achieved the same power to define people in Italy as it has in many other Western Nations.

Theo: Yes! Or even better: People should enjoy work so much, that it enhances their enjoyment of life also!

Nutster: Now that you say it, that cliché is getting pretty old isn’t it? And after all, how many people on their deathbed say “I wish I had used more tired, old clichés?”

By: Nutster

Nutster — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:02:53 +0000

Alex…loved the quotes but I am on a campaign to stop the debating around the deathbed scenario. How many times do you hear: “you won’t be on your deathbed saying ‘I should have spent another day at the office’ ” ? It’s usually said to someone that spends a lot of time at work….work that person may or may not enjoy. I was recently asked that and I said, “No, I won’t say that but I won’t say ‘I should have smelled more roses’ either.” For crimenys sake, we are talking about being on the deathbed! The only thing I am going to be thinking is “well, I guess I am going to get the answer to the question everyone has been asking all my life pretty soon. Hope I didn’t screw up!”

By: Theo Tonca

Theo Tonca — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:11:37 +0000

awesome, awesome post Alex! Work should be play and instead of people rushing out the door at the end of the day because they can’t wait to get home, companies should have trouble getting everybody to go home because work is so enjoyable.

By: Deirdré Straughan

Deirdré Straughan — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:40:38 +0000

“When you meet someone at a party, what’s the first question you typically ask them? Exactly: “So, what do you do?�? ”

That depends very much on your culture. In Italy, this question rarely gets asked – a fact I mused upon some time ago, http://www.beginningwithi.com/italy/living/whatdo.html

By: Ron Davison

Ron Davison — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:19:16 +0000

Wonderful excerpts Alexander – thanks for sharing.

My favorite quote regarding the tradeoff between money and satisfaction may have come from the novelist William Faulkner
He once served as postmaster at the University of Mississippi. When he decided to quit the job, he wrote a letter to the Postmaster General in Washington which is still shown there gleefully to preferred visitors.
“As long as I live under the capitalist system,�? stated Faulkner, “I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.�?