Red Bull: By the Numbers

Commands 43% of the US energy drink market.
Sold 4.6 Billion Cans of Red Bull in 2011.
2011 revenue of $5.5 Billion, a third of which the company says they put back into marketing.

Yes, now I understand how RB can afford to do so much cool stuff.  Keep on, keepin' on!  I would be curious how Monster's numbers would stack up against RB's?

Source: Newsweek, Red Bull Goes to Space

Do Not Confuse the Two...

“The criminality is astounding ... You have a complete confusion between principal and principle.”

   - S.B. Lewis (Jan 27, 1939 - present) speaking about corruption within banking and the stock market

Quoted from NYT: A Lonely Redemption

Occam's Razor

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
   -William of Occam (1300-1350)

Some how, references to Occam's Razor seem to keep coming up in my life...

La Guerra

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
-- Edward Gibbon 


The following quote is from an article in the NYT published Oct 22, 2010 and titled: "A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in Iraq"
"Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross."

My Thoughts Exactly...

"We’ll do more to defeat the enemy by not overreacting to the inevitable act of terrorism.”
-Michael Leiter, Director of National Counter Terrorism Center

Jim Elliot

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

- Jim Elliot (killed while evangelizing to the Waodani people in Ecuador)

Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy - Joseph Hart

Come, ye sinners, poor and needy,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore;
Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity, love and pow’r.
...
Come, ye weary, heavy-laden,
Lost and ruined by the fall;
If you tarry till you’re better,
You will never come at all.
...
Let not conscience make you linger,
Not of fitness fondly dream;
All the fitness He requireth
Is to feel your need of Him.

Matthew 11:28-30