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• If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses.
  When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him. -- Spark's Sixth Rule for Manage...
• Spark's Sixth Rule for Managers: If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses.
  When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him....
• If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses.
  When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him....
• Kid goes into barber shop and orders his very long hair cut to the roots.
  Older bystander laughingly asks him how much weight he has lost in doing this....
• A farmer decides that his three sows should be bred, and contacts a buddy down the road, who owns several boars.
  They agree on a stud fee, and the farmer puts the sows in his pickup and takes them down the road to the boars....
• Spark's First Rule for Managers: Strive to look tremendously important.
• Walter Shandy attributed most of his son's misfortunes to the fact that at a highly critical moment his wife had asked him if he had wound the clock
  a question so irrelevant that he despaired of the child's ever being able to pursue a logical train of thought....
• To him that can take all that you have, give what he asks.
• He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes.
  But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. Tom J. Connelly...