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

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

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

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