I am the heart of the city and its people; the marker that defines Emaar’s ambition and Dubai’s shining dream.

-Exerpt from the Burj Khalifa buildings foundation poem.

Building | Burj Khalifa | Dubai | Excess | Hubris | Poem

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