Quotes

Remember the concept of the cleanest dirty shirt. We live in a relative world so if we misbehave and others misbehave more, we don’t get punished because we have the reserve currency and are the place where people outsource savings to. As long as we remain the cleanest dirty shirt, we will not be punished. If others become cleaner than us, we will be punished, but for right now we are the cleanest dirty shirt.

-Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic advisor and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

-Aaron Levenstein

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch

-Joseph Stalin

Quantity has a quality all its own

-Joseph Stalin

The best thing about the future is, that it comes only one day at a time.

-Abraham Lincoln

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

-Jim Rohn

I never knew where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do with my voice, but I just wanted to do it so bad.

-Neko Case

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies

-Schopenhauer

Wherever you have a goat and you have a piece of wood, all I want to say is the goat better watch out because it’s probably going to end up being a bagpipe.

-Hans Zimmer

Whom the Gods would destroy, they first put on the cover of Business Week.

-Paul Krugman

Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art

-Andy Warhol

Whenever you invest based on an ideology, you are going to make some decisions that are a little divorced from math.

-Peter Zeihan

A fool and his money are soon parted.

-Dr. John Bridges’ Defence of the Government of the Church of England, 1587