Quotes

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

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

-George Orwell

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

-Lord Acton

If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.

-Max Brooks

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

-Lord Acton

A solution shall not another problem create.

-Tom Burtonwood

Never mistake motion for action.

-Ernest Hemingway

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgement is to be a slave, not a free man, It is from this fact that the liberal arts acquire their name

-Mortimer Adler

[The written word] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls.

-Socrates