Quote of the Week

I live in a Connecticut town populated by artists, writers and Wall Street traders. Some of my neighbors have lost not only their jobs but their entire life savings. (I know, it's hard to feel sorry for a group of people who earned more in bonuses over the past few years than the rest of us combined will earn in a lifetime, especially when their collective irresponsibility and greed have hurt us all. But still. . . .) The NY Times ran an article yesterday examining how some of these folks are coping with the crisis. A 51-year old former Bear worker named Andy Neff had this to say:

Is this comfortable? No, it's really not comfortable, it's disorienting. But I find it unfortunate that people tend to focus on how much they lost. Coming out of every situation, you need to focus on what you have, not on what you lost.