
“Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.”
Letter to Hessey (1823).
Source: Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Christina T. Fong. "The business school ‘business’: Some lessons from the US experience." Journal of management studies 41.8 (2004): 1501-1520. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christina_Fong2/publication/46540485_The_Business_School_%27Business%27_Some_Lessons_from_the_US_Experience/links/0c96052a604fa4e317000000/The-Business-School-Business-Some-Lessons-from-the-US-Experience.pdf
“Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.”
Letter to Hessey (1823).
Variant: The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Bill Whittle's Keynote speech https://vimeo.com/145285384 at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's 2015 Restoration Weekend on Nov. 6, 2015.
2010s
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 8, Where The Money Is, p. 102
“How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“No longer can I complain that the unrighteous man reaches the highest pinnacle of success. He is raised aloft that he may be hurled down in more headlong ruin.”
Iam non ad culmina rerum<br/>iniustos crevisse queror; tolluntur in altum<br/>ut lapsu graviore ruant.
Iam non ad culmina rerum
iniustos crevisse queror; tolluntur in altum
ut lapsu graviore ruant.
In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 21-23 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#21.
KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, March 25, 2001, 11:00 p.m. hour.