Mitch's Blog

On this national American holiday, I thought it would be proper to post some quotes from prominent leaders of our past, to remind us of our ultimate mission as leaders: “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin “Freedom is […]

I guess it’s now a competition, this millionaire quest of mine (read here). A friend of mine wrote me and his specific words were “I’m going to get there first”. I said to him I didn’t realize we were in competition with each other, and he said it wasn’t a competition, it was a fact. […]

I hate bullies. I didn’t like them when I was a kid, and I certainly don’t like them now. Nowadays, though, I see them more often in office environments, where, instead of physically beating people up, they mentally beat people down. Most of the time they don’t even realize they’re doing it, which makes it […]

(originally published June 8th, 2005) I like being correct. I don’t think I’m any different than anyone else in saying this, except there’s many people who don’t want to go on record by saying it. In my zeal to always try to be correct, I always am on guard in making sure that I don’t […]

(originally published July 20th, 2005) There was this commercial last year for Citibank where one woman asked another woman when the baby was due. When the other woman said she wasn’t pregnant, and was ready to challenge the first woman, the first woman said “thank you”. The second woman was stunned, said “Who, me?”, and […]