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

Everytime you hear EBITDA substitute it with bullshit earnings.

-Charlie Munger

That’s L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

-Eva Mendes

I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers.

-Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

I believe in free speech, so long as the state is allowed to arrest those who say the wrong things.

-Titania McGrath

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

-F.A. Hayek

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

-Thomas Sowell

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

-Thomas Sowell

Is that progress from Stonehenge to the Supertalls (skyscrapers) … Is that a net positive for us as a people?

-Kai Ryssdal on APM’s Marketplace 4/11/22 20mins

Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.

-Mike Jeffries (former CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch)