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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

-Winston Churchill

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.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale

– I. F. Stone

When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will

When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will

– Frédéric Bastiat

Looking backward fucks with your neck

-Gary Vaynerchuk

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

– H. L. Mencken

No piece in a World Chess Champion set is harder to make than the knight, that alone takes 2 hours to hand carve each time.

-Business Insider

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

-C.S. Lewis

I’m Lowell Bergman, I’m from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the 60 Minutes out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call.

-“The Insider” 1999