“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” – Wilkins Micawber in the book David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I have a confession to make. The Micawber Principle, as stated above and from which this blog gets…
“The weakest of all weak things is virtue that has not been tested in the fire.” – Mark Twain “Ethicist Michael Josephson says ethics is all about how we meet the challenge of doing the right thing when that act will cost us more than we want to pay.” – John M. Huntsman, Sr. …
I am not a big gambler. However, I do have enough experience playing nickel slots in Vegas (I am a real high-roller when I do gamble) to have learned that it is easy to get two sevens on a classic three-column slot machine but almost impossible to get three (777) and win the jackpot. This…
