Whenever you invest based on an ideology, you are going to make some decisions that are a little divorced from math.

-Peter Zeihan

ideology | investment | math

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)

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