Quotes

You can’t tax all thought by making it nice.

-Eric Weinstein

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

No-action relief is a mechanism that allows registrants to obtain certain assurances from the FTC when their conduct may touch upon a gray area of regulation, or even may be technically proscribed, but does not raise the policy concerns underlying a particular rule.

-Securities and Exchange Commission

I don’t believe in the no win scenario… I don’t like to lose.

-Admiral James T. Kirk

You never, almost never have a major brokerage house say the game’s over, guys duck. It doesn’t happen. The commercial imperative is overwhelming to stay bullish. That’s how you make money.

-Jeremy Grantham of GMO Investment “Bloomburg 1/6/22”

Who is it about, what do they want, why can’t they get it, what do they do about that, why doesn’t that work, & how does it end.

– Glenn Gers 6 essential questions of storytelling

Rule #1: Don’t Lose Money

– Warren Buffett

Cops and Soldiers don’t mix, Cops keep the peace, Armed troops make the peace by killing everyone who’s not peaceful.

-Tom Clancy NSA speech October 1986

We have all the time in the world…

-Ian Fleming

Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king.

-Knoxville Journal 1896

If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.

-Marcus Aurelius