Month: November 2006

In China, I once read, the government has an affirmative action policy which significantly favours ugly women. This is because the Chinese government believes that prepossessing damsels have so many other advantages in life. It may no longer be true, but it sure highlights that no decision is never going to make everyone happy. (I…

If you are a business owner I’d like to borrow some money from you this week, if I may? I don’t want to borrow from my bank because they do all those nasty credit checks to determine whether I am, in fact, creditable. Heck, they even go so far as to check my criminal record….

If you are a business owner I’d like to borrow some money from you this week, if I may? I don’t want to borrow from my bank because they do all those nasty credit checks to determine whether I am, in fact, creditable. Heck, they even go so far as to check my criminal record….

Life is a fascinating journey, peppered with extremes. For example, on the one side we have the frantically driven, deeply inspired, focused, people following their passion. The less life they have (and the more obviously successful they are) the more they become our icons – the Bill Gates’s, the Richard Branson’s, heck, even the Maggie…

Felix Dennis wrote a wonderful book on how to get rich — and he should know, because he did — and now whiles away his days on an island beach in the Caribbean. His book is typically English — no-nonsense, with a scathing opinion on all the people telling you how to make it, but…

Felix Dennis wrote a wonderful book on how to get rich — and he should know, because he did — and now whiles away his days on an island beach in the Caribbean. His book is typically English — no-nonsense, with a scathing opinion on all the people telling you how to make it, but…