-Admiral James T. Kirk
I don’t believe in the no win scenario… I don’t like to lose.
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Quotes
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
History is a slaughter bench, upon which the happiness of nations, the wisdom of states, and the virtues of individuals are sacrificed
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel “Paraphrased”