We had a guy in our company -- this is what he does for a living -- fall for one. The guy was so convincing on the other end of the phone.

Analyzing anything negative that affects their score and aggressively disputing anything erroneous, unverifiable, or outdated.

We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.