Sublime

There is never a shortage of people with ideas in our world, but there are very few people who know how to successfully implement a good idea, which is more valuable than thinking about a thousand of good ideas at home.

Many people who lack action are naive and like to sit and wait for things to happen naturally. They naively think that others will care about their affairs. In actual fact, other than yourself, others will not be very interested in them. People are only interested in their own things.

After famously being rejected by several other publishers who either berated its criticism of Britain’s wartime ally Stalin, or, in T. S. Eliot’s case, its lack of ‘public-spirited pigs’.

McCormack is quite certain that the practice of measuring a book’s potential “contribution,” rather than creating an artificial P&L that incorporated an overhead percentage, was a primary driver of St. Martin’s period of profitable title growth.

In 1985, there were twelve key trade companies for whom we were able to get estimates of earnings. When we applied 2015 ownership to these twelve companies, the number shrank down to six companies that now controlled the volume encompassed by the twelve in our estimate in 1985. The top three companies in 1985 covered 48 percent of the trade busines