The way successful businesses price products and services always interests me, this is from the Wall Street Journal via Charles Arthur’s Overspill Why $19 is Apple’s favourite price for accessories • WSJ Analysts say $19 is also a sweet spot for well-to-do consumers willing to pay extra for basic tech products and services. “When youContinue reading “Price yourself like Apple?”
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The Monday Morning Quote #675
“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.” Sir Charles Spencer (Charlie) Chaplin Jr. KB
The Monday Morning Quote #674
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” Charles Bukowski
The Monday Morning Quote #671
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life…” C.S.Lewis
Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot
When you think you’re significant take a few minutes to watch & listen… “Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”
The Monday Morning Quote #670
“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.” Martin Luther King Jr
Climate & Cars
A couple of links on climate change and the rise of electric cars. The solutions are never straightforward. From the always readable and challenging “Imagine (the planet with climate action)”, the weekly journal from The Conversation comes a few questions: Will we get to net zero by 2050? How does global carbon removal work? CanContinue reading “Climate & Cars”
US Dental Benefits on the Cusp…..
From the Financial Times and behind a paywall….my verdict on this…I’ll believe it when I see it. Barbers went on pulling teeth long after doctors monopolised surgery on other parts of the body. The divide between dentists and the rest of the medical profession persisted into the 21st century where it is baked into theContinue reading “US Dental Benefits on the Cusp…..”
The Monday Morning Quote #679
“Expect the worst and that’s what you’ll get only it will be much worse.” J.P. Donleavy
Dental Associates – Tax Status
The dental community, like other groups can be described in these words, “There three types of people in the world, those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who say, “what happened?”. The winds of change have been threatening the default status of dental associates for a decade and a halfContinue reading “Dental Associates – Tax Status”
The Incisal Edge 