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From the Archives: The Ultimate Cost of Penny-Pinching

Success

He believes that a suit of clothes and a necktie should be worn until they are threadbare. No one can afford to transact important business when they are not in prime condition, and it pays one in health and in comfort, as well as financially, to be very good to oneself , especially when health and a clear brain are our best capital.

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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

Workplace Insight

It bears some comparisons with Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A Christakis which offered a wide-ranging look at how people and their societies and environments are shaped by their innate and sometimes unchangeable characteristics. “The He wasn’t the first to say this.

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