1. Extract maximum profit from each potential customer.
2. We're not in this business for our health.
3. Honesty and integrity are very important for business success and, if you can fake it, you've really got it made.

~ ~ ~      "Student learning in college is unambiguously linked to effective teaching, and we know much about what effective teachers do and how they behave in and outside the classroom. Although a number of teacher behaviors are positively associated with student learning (e.g., rapport, interpersonal accessibility, feedback), two stand out as being particularly salient. These are instructor skill (particularly clarity of presentation) and course structure (e.g., class time is structured and organized efficiently). What is perhaps most important is that many of the elements of both of the key dimensions of effective teaching can themselves be learned."

Pascarella, Ernest T., "The Impact of College: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?"

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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's much too dark to read."

 Groucho Marx 

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Complex problems usually have simple, easy to understand, and wrong answers.

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     The law is a profession, like prostitution, where the amateurs actually believe they are as good as the professionals.

(taken from Supreme Allied Commander and subsequent 2 term U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's remarks referring to Generals of the Army and amateur critics)

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     "Human life means to me the life of beings for whom the leisured activities of thought, art, literature, conversation are the end, and the preservation and propagation of life merely the means. That is why education seems to me so important: it actualizes that potentiality for leisure, if your like, for amateurishness which is man's prerogative. You have noticed, I hope, that man is the only amateur animal; all the others are professionals…. The lion cannot stop hunting, nor the beaver making dams, nor the bee making honey. When God made the beasts dumb, He saved the world from infinite boredom; for if they could speak, they would all of them, all day talk nothing but shop."

C.S. Lewis, Our English Syllabus; Rehabilitation's and Other Essays

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There are three things that a person can watch forever without becoming bored,

          -water running,

          -fire burning, and

          -other people working.

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