Business, like art and science, has been revealed and conceived through the intellect and imagination of people, and it develops or declines because of the intellect and imagination of people.

In fact, there is no business; there are only people. Business exists only *among* people and *for* people.

Seems simple enough, and it applies to every aspect of business, but not enough businesspeople seem to get it.

Reading the economic forecasts and the indicators and the ratios and the rates for this or that, someone from another planet might actually believe that there really are invisible hands at work in the marketplace.

 

You know what comes next, of course.
You know I’m writing this at my desk,
on a Thursday,
and day after tomorrow
I’ll put on bib overalls,
the neighbors thinking what an affectation,
and pull weeds for the composter,
and dig a place for a late row of greens,
most of them going to seed
instead of in the pot,
and tell myself what the hell,
I just want to dig the dirt
and watch the stuff grow,
an educated fool at last.

*excerpt from Educated Fool