I recently heard through the grapevine that there’s a gaggle of young people in the marketing world who like to say I’m “old fashioned” and “out of touch” and “NGMI” and other such things,
And really, I don’t think it’s fair.
I mean, those labels don’t even BEGIN to describe me.
In fact, following are some old timey day truisms I put far more stock into than any tactic, technique, or corporate CEO fan fiction-pushed technology. Many were coined/practiced/implemented by extremely successful men during some particularly brutally hard times.
i.e., famines, pestilences, depressions, & persecution – social, religious, or political.
Enjoy…
* You calm an angry woman down by asking if she’s hungry, you make a boring woman fun by asking if she’s thirsty
* It’s easy to be a socialist with a roof over your head (and, I’d add, a $900 iPhone in your hand)
* The bigger the church hat, the more skeletons
* Bleeding hearts create bleeding bodies
* God doesn’t send out beggars
* Just because I’m a ____ doesn’t mean I’m not right
* You won’t worry where you’re next can of beans is coming from if you always have a can opener
* Don’t hire a cowboy with bloody spurs
* The deep stuff is at the shallow end of the pool
* No persecution, no urgency
* Isn’t there something better you could be doing?
* It’s when your eyes are tired that your scalp’s in the most danger
* Fortune curses the procrastinator
* The touch of a master is like the weight of a mountain
* A lock easily opened by a lot of keys ain’t a valuable lock
* If fish ain’t bitin’ throw ‘em a little chum
* And, finally, my one contribution to this list:
“You can’t kill a werewolf with a bitcoin”
Enough stone soup for the soul.
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Ben Settle
