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You can’t trust people much……
Why capitalism works: You can’t trust people much, but you can trust them to follow their own self-interest. You can’t trust people much……Filed under: Quotes Tagged: self-interest, trust
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Jesse Livermore: They say you never go broke taking profits…
….I had been bullish from the very start of a bull market, and I had backed my opinion by buying stocks. An advance followed, as I had clearly foreseen. So far, all very well. But what else did I do?...
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Freedom is precarious…….
Freedom, the book [by Geoff Dyer] says, is precarious, it must be won every day and can only be found through constant renewal. It is never held but chased under the lengthening shadows of habit and...
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For The Fallen
For The Fallen Written September 1914 With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the...
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Abraham Maslow: “If the only tool you have is a hammer….”
“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” ~ Abraham Maslow [Maslow could well have been observing US foreign policy when he made that...
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A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. ~ Winston Churchill in a radio...
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Winston Churchill: Bolshevism
My hatred of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks is not founded on their silly system of economics, or their absurd doctrine of an impossible equality. It arises from the bloody and devastating terrorism which...
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Margaret Thatcher: Power
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. ~ Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher: PowerFiled under: Quotes Tagged: Margaret Thatcher, Power
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Margaret Thatcher: Russia
She’s ruled by a dictatorship of patient, far-sighted determined men who are rapidly making their country the foremost naval and military power in the world. They are not doing this solely for the sake...
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Winston Churchill: An appeaser…
Winston Churchill: An appeaser…Filed under: Quotes Tagged: appeaser, Winston Churchill
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The rules of life are written…
An insight into the mind of F Scott Fitzgerald, from Malcolm Cowley. Originally published in The New Republic on August 20, 1951. Tender Is The Night was published in the spring of 1934…. It dealt with...
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Winston Churchill: For a nation to tax itself into prosperity…
For a nation to tax itself into prosperity…..Winston Churchill pic.twitter.com/rWNfZ924PE — Colin Twiggs (@Colin_Twiggs) September 29, 2014Filed under: Quotes, Taxes & Inequality Tagged:...
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Vince Lombardi: Work and success
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi: Work and successFiled under: Quotes Tagged: success, Vince Lombardi, work
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Ludwig von Mises: The Causes of Economic Crisis (1931)
Credit expansion cannot increase the supply of real goods. It merely brings about a rearrangement. It diverts capital investment away from the course prescribed by the state of economic wealth and...
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Peter Drucker: Last deadly sin
Don’t feed your problems and starve your opportunities. ~ The Effective Executive (Five Deadly Sins in Business) Peter Drucker: Last deadly sinFiled under: Quotes Tagged: Five Deadly Sins, Peter...
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Benjamin Disraeli: Success
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. ~ Sir Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion (1880) Benjamin Disraeli: SuccessFiled under: Quotes Tagged: Benjamin...
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George Soros: Assume that markets are always wrong…
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposition position. I assume that markets are always wrong. Even if my assumption is occasionally wrong, I use it as a working...
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George Soros: Regulation of global financial markets
It is time to recognize that financial markets are inherently unstable. Imposing market discipline means imposing instability, and how much instability can society take? …. To put it bluntly, the...
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Margaret Thatcher: Terrorism (1985)
“….The terrorist uses force because he knows he will never get his way by democratic means. Through calculated savagery, his aim is to induce fear in the hearts of people. And weariness towards...
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Eric Hoffer: In times of change….
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. One of my favorite quotes. Eric Hoffer: In times of...
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