Rick Smith

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.  I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time.  What do you get at the end of it?  A death.  What's that, a bonus?!? I think the life cycle is all backwards.  You should die first, get it out of the ...

  What appears to be a disaster in progress in the picture above, is actually one of the more creative Christmas decorations I have ever come across.  It is so realistic, in fact, that the police made the homeowner take it down after only 2 days.  “I had more people come ...

  I just had the most interesting conversation with a friend – a very powerful business person, wise from experience, likely one of the top 100 influential female professionals in the world. Her comment to me? “Hurry up. The window is closing…” She was referring to the state of the economy, ...

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.” - Ovid Why is the irrational often more powerful than the rational? What leads us to do really stupid ...

Below is a clip of my interview last week on Fox Business News. The topic at a high level was about how retailers were going to approach Black Friday - would they simply look to their competitors and follow their lead? Who is doing well? Who is ...

  Why did the Pilgrims choose to dine on Turkey for Thanksgiving?  Actually, it was because they believed that lobster, plentiful in the waters around them, were actually giant insects – some type of large underwater spider, and they refused to eat them.  Their perception was so strong; it led to a myopic ...