Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation.

-John Updike

Artifice | Celebrity | Fame | Sanity

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

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