Fractured Aphorisms
By Mitch Berg
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life.
If you toss a man a can of bait worms and tell him to figure it out, you feed him for life and give him the problem-solving skills he needs to truly succeed. Or feed him for a day. One or the other.
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:05 pm
If you toss a man a can of bait worms and tell him to figure it out, you feed him for life and give him the problem-solving skills he needs to truly succeed. Or feed him for a day.
If the man figures out a way to eat the bait as a guest on a show with Andrew Zimmern, he might be able to earn sufficient residuals to eat for a few days.
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:22 pm
I thought it was “if you teach a man to fish, he’ll never willingly work another day for the rest of his life”. :^)
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:54 pm
For the benefit of those who are not in my Facebook friends list:
If you build a man a fire, you warm him for an evening.
If you set a man on fire, you warm him for the rest of his life.
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:03 pm
If you fire a man, you put him on unemployment.
July 22nd, 2011 at 5:56 pm
That’s racist!!