That's what we're fast discovering," he replied.
But that is now changing, and Gordon Brown, the prime minister, is fast discovering just how fickle businesspeople can be.
But as the world has erupted politically and physically in recent weeks, administrators and students have been fast discovering the downside.
Out of school, editing copy under deadline, "already squeezed and breathless," she was fast discovering that life rarely conforms to our vision of how it should be.
Chefs on both coasts are fast discovering his goat meat, although it is still available only in limited amounts, under the name BN Ranch.
But the Chinese themselves, who with their newfound freedoms and prosperity (and cars and superhighways and cellphone towers) are fast discovering their country as never before, have all of a sudden, and in their millions, discovered Wulingyuan.
Such knock-offs were cheap to produce, but manufacturers are fast discovering the limits of this approach.The lack of underlying engineering skills makes it hard to build reliable cars, and problems typically emerge within a few months.
Persepolis depicts Satrapi's first stint of European exile as a nightmarish period in which she grew up fast, discovered sex, drugs, deprivation and a spell of homelessness leading to severe bronchitis.
Running away just isn't Emily's style Emily Mortimer, whose blossoming Hollywood career Pandora has been monitoring closely, is fast discovering that movies can be a brutally honest business.
This is the west coast of South Africa and, as I was fast discovering, a road trip here is a journey into the unknown, and an education in traditional ways of living.
