Posted on February 16, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (41)
Isn’t is remarkable that vote-hungry politicians continue their never-ending extensions of unemployment benefits, even though these benefits, like minimum-wage laws, actually cause unemployment? The fact is that when many people say they can’t find a job, what they really mean is they can’t find the job they want, at the wage they want, under the […]
Posted on February 11, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (15)
A reader (“John”) recently asked me a number of questions that I’ve been asked many times before, in one form or another: I’ve read your book Looking Out For #1 and the part that particularly catches my eye is where you were down to the point of living out of a Ryder truck. … I’d […]
Posted on February 4, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (40)
After Bill O’Reilly’s childish bloviating for a week about his upcoming interview with Barack Obama on Super Bowl Sunday, guaranteeing viewers that he was going to ask questions that were different from any Obama has ever before heard and that the questions would be cast in such a way as to leave no wiggle room […]
Posted on January 27, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (30)
Some years ago, I had a long talk with my good friend John Pugsley, whom I believe was one of the most clear-headed thinkers of our time. One of the things John and I discussed at some length is a subject that is front and center in the minds of most entrepreneurs and businesspeople today: […]
Posted on January 23, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (30)
One of the things that fascinates me about life is my mental state when I wake up every morning. Some mornings, I feel as though I need a head massage to get my brain cells going. Other mornings, I feel a heightened state of awareness that tells me it’s going to be a great day. […]
Posted on January 22, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (46)
A while back, I received an interesting e-mail from a subscriber that read: “I am unsubscribing. I really enjoyed reading your letters, until you decided to bring your politics into it. I’m sorry, but I’m with the 70 percent of the country that disagrees with you. You are a very smart man and a gifted […]
Posted on January 21, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (34)
Have you ever entertained the thought that you are the only person on earth and that everyone else — family, friends, business associates, and total strangers — are but actors in your play of life? Perhaps I’m just weird, but this thought first struck me when I was about six or seven years old. Taking […]
Posted on January 16, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (20)
Advice: Don’t live a life of exclamation points! By that I mean a life where you are constantly pressing against everyone and everything around you. People shy away from high pressure, which is why exclamation-point people tend to be crowd busters. As with so many things in life, I suspect that most people who are […]
Posted on January 14, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (40)
What’s this world coming to? The Mexicans are attacking us from the south, and now the Indians are attacking us from … well, from halfway around the world — in their own country! Allow me to explain. The Mexicans have to come here if we want them to pick our grapes and mow our lawns […]
Posted on January 10, 2014 by Robert Ringer — Comments (120)
When the news broke that three of the National Football League wildcard playoff games last weekend did not sell out, it got me thinking about, of all things, the connection between the NFL and the decline of the Roman Empire. The NFL is to the United States what the gladiatorial contests were to Rome, sans […]
