Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

If character is not taught, how can it possibly be learned? The affluent world in which so many young citizens exist today doesn’t easily create the ability to build character. Often character requires failure; it requires adversity; it requires contemplation; it requires determination and steadfastness; it requires finding one’s own space as an in

Whoever cultivates the Golden Mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

what’s enough

What can be counted and weighed and spent is only a small part of enough. To understand what enough means in the larger picture of existence, we must all keep in mind the many other things that count in this life, even though (after that sign in Einstein’s office) they can’t be counted.

S. Eliot had expressed the same ideas—much more poetically, of course—in The Rock (1934): Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. To paraphrase Neil Postman’s

Rule 10: Press On, Regardless

If a job is to be done, best to do it right.

Too Much “Success,” Not Enough Character

In a New York Times essay in November 2004, David Brooks put it well: Highly educated young people are tutored, taught, and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character-building. But without character and courage, nothing else lasts.