Quotes

Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying

– Unknown

Rentier

A Rentier is someone who lives off income from investments, particularly from renting land or property. This term was historically used to describe members of the landed gentry who derived a significant portion of their income from rents collected on their estates.

Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face

– Mike Tyson

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren’t true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn’t keep a lie for three weeks. You’re telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

– Charles Colson, Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon

One thing Entrepreneurs have, is we are too stupid to know we are going to fail. No startup makes any sense otherwise it would already exist.

-Scott Galloway

It’s not easy to come up with new & exciting ideas, so you have to come up with crazy ones.

-Noam Chomsky

The main problem with the internet is it has driven the proximal price of being a prick down to zero.

-Your Mother last night

The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone physical ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

-Private author about US Politics

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

-Mark Twain

In Geopolitics the phrase exists: “Doing so would be an international crime; but even worse than illegal, is ineffective.”

-Christopher Hudgens

Style is the stuff you get wrong.

-Neil Gaiman

Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

-Paul Kriwaczek

No man who opposes the unrighteousness of the state lives long if he is in a public position.

-Socrates, while at trial