You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?

[https://archive.org/stream/sextusempiricusa17556gut/17556.txt Full text of Pyrrhonic Sketches online]

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.