They Have Pizza?
When I became a paint dealer in 1988 my father was already a member of a dealer-owned cooperative. Though not THE one which sent so many...
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Mark Lipton
- Aug 1
- 2 min
Save THE Date!
Sherwin-Williams reported earnings last week; THE largest paint manufacturer in history announcing that sales had increased 6.3% during...
Mark Lipton
- Apr 23
- 2 min
Won't Be Long Now
I’ve blogged previously of the equally immutable and poisonous facts of paint manufacturing: the process' dependence on petro-chemical...
Mark Lipton
- Apr 9
- 3 min
Just Another Family Business
When University of Connecticut basketball coach Dan Hurley cut the nets down on his team's championship season last week, he did so from...
Mark Lipton
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Should I Have Edited that Out?
My daughter Miranda, née Buck Wheat, recently traveled to the mountain-city of San Cristobal de las Casas in southern Mexico. THE...
Mark Lipton
- Dec 4, 2022
- 3 min
He Was More Motivated!
On July 18, 1885 Ulysses S. Grant put down his fountain pen on the final page of his memoir. THE effort, robbing Grant of his remaining...
Mark Lipton
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
Not if You Know it All!
I didn’t make it to the gym at all last week. My determination buried under a pile of excuses! To avoid her father becoming moribund my...
Mark Lipton
- Sep 11, 2022
- 3 min
The Vice is Right!
The police department in my hometown of Stamford, Connecticut is made up of 13-units. The City that Works requiring a bomb squad and...
Mark Lipton
- Aug 25, 2022
- 3 min
Define Success?
John Wooden is generally considered the greatest collegiate basketball coach of all time. The “Wizard of Westwood” coaching the UCLA...
Mark Lipton
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
An Implied Covenant
On Wednesday the world’s largest paint maker Sherwin-Williams, will announce their earnings for the second quarter of the 2022 fiscal...
Mark Lipton
- Jun 5, 2022
- 3 min
It's Grand!
At more than 185-feet wide, the Bronx’s Grand Concourse is nearly double the width of Manhattan’s iconic Park or Madison Avenues....
Mark Lipton
- May 1, 2022
- 3 min
Another Mint Julep?
I want to live my life with the optimism of the person who left my daughter Buck Wheat a one-minute and 45-second long voice mail. THE...
Mark Lipton
- Apr 24, 2022
- 3 min
Calling Elon Musk!
At the age of 12, Elon Musk sold the code to a video game he had written called Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for $500....
Mark Lipton
- Mar 13, 2022
- 2 min
It's All Relative
With his theories of special and general relativity published in 1905 and 1915 respectively, the works of Albert Einstein replaced those...
Mark Lipton
- Feb 13, 2022
- 3 min
Funny You Should Ask!
A 24-years-old my daughter Buck Wheat is no longer obligated to listen to her father’s advice on life management; THE kid more than old...
Mark Lipton
- Jan 16, 2022
- 3 min
Save Muresco!
In 1991 when I published my first column in the Paint Dealer, it was hand-delivered to the 15,000 dealers and industry-mates who...
Mark Lipton
- Dec 26, 2021
- 3 min
THE Holiday Tradition!
For the second time in as many years the coronavirus beat Santa down the chimney. The virus which causes Covid not waiting for Rudolf to...
Mark Lipton
- Oct 31, 2021
- 3 min
A Complete Change
In the year 2000 the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), a Boston think tank which studied the problem of post-consumer paint waste,...
Mark Lipton
- Oct 3, 2021
- 3 min
#DansDreamCameTrue
In 1936 my grandfather Jack Lipton would have been working 72-hours a week behind the counter at Tremont Paint. The second of...
Mark Lipton
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
I'm Coming Grasshopper!
Like most independent paint dealers I speak with these days, Augusta Paint and Decorating is setting sales records. Owner Leslie Merritt...
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