“Love your country but mistrust your government.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on April 19, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Free trade insures that production takes place in its most efficient location, as governed by principles of comparative advantage. Hence the U.S. imports bananas and exports soybeans and hi-tech products.” R.J. Barro Posted on April 17, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The weak grow strong by effrontery. The strong grow weak through inhibition.” Henry Kissinger Posted on April 17, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and well in the White House.” R. Williams Posted on April 13, 2018 by mplacente Reply
” You need someone who believes in this country, again, to begin to change it.” J. Baldwinn Posted on April 11, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Decide who you’re not before you decide who you are.” A.K. Thompson Posted on April 10, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” A. France Posted on April 6, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“People want to do business with someone they like. If they don’t, you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.” B. Corcoran Posted on April 5, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“We’re all here for a short spell, so get all the good laughs you can.” Will Rogers Posted on April 4, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It isn’t what people think that’s important, but the reason they think what they think.” E. Lonesco Posted on April 3, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“April 1 is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other 364.” Mark Twain Posted on April 2, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The only thing in life that is constant is change.” Peter Munk Posted on April 1, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Committee: A group who keeps minutes and wastes hours.” Milton Berle Posted on March 30, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“In Hollywood the key word is honesty. Once you’ve learned how to fake that, the rest is easy.” George Burns Posted on March 28, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Nothing in the fine print is ever good news.” Andy Rooney Posted on March 27, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.” Cardinal J.H. Newman Posted on March 23, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“In his heyday, Howard Hughes didn’t have as good a television as you do.” K.D. Williamson Posted on March 21, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted on March 20, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Posted on March 16, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading.” Ray Bradbury Posted on March 15, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“If you believe that luck will just fall from the sky, you will probably never get lucky.” J. Kaplan Posted on March 14, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It doesn’t matter where you came from. It matters where you are going.” Condoleezza Rice Posted on March 8, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“If you cannot see the irony in having a gun ban enforced by people with guns, then you fail to understand why the second amendment was written in the first place.” Unknown Posted on March 7, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Luck occurs at the intersection of random chance, talent and hard work.” J. Kaplan Posted on March 6, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“What sticks with you is failure. Failure is the lesson. Success is just a moment in your life.” Nick Nolte Posted on March 5, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing.” Clive James Posted on March 2, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Money isn’t wealth. It measures value. It has no intrinsic value. It is a system based on trust.” Steve Forbes Posted on March 1, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Do the best you can, and don’t take life too seriously.” Will Rogers Posted on February 28, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Humans are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.” A. Montagu Posted on February 27, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams Posted on February 26, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“We – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.” Clint Eastwood Posted on February 23, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” Charles Krauthammer Posted on February 22, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“No one spends other people’s money as well, as wisely or as carefully as they spend their own money.” R.A. Schwartz Posted on February 21, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Overspending is a congenital defect of democracies, as the majority of voters naturally would like more from government than they are willing to finance.” A. Smith Posted on February 20, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“A woman’s rights parade? Sure. A gay pride parade? Great. A black history parade. Yes. A super bowl victory parade? Fun. A Never Trump parade? Perfect. A military parade to honor our armed forces? No Way!” Bob Gorrell Posted on February 19, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” W.C. Fields Posted on February 16, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t be afraid to make a decision. Be afraid not to make a decision.” Harvey Mackay Posted on February 15, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t tell your problems to other people. Eighty percent don’t care, and the others are glad you have them.” Lou Holtz Posted on February 14, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Stocks…Prices fluctuate. Next question.” Ace Greenberg Posted on February 13, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“What we call progress is often the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.” H. Ellis Posted on February 12, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Davos is where billionaires tell millionaires how the middle class feels.” Jamie Dimon Posted on February 10, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy so when they grow up they will know the value of things…not the price.” Steve Jobs Posted on February 2, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” E. Hoffer Posted on February 1, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“America was founded by geniuses, but has been run by idiots.” J. Kennedy Posted on January 31, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Common courtesy should never be an uncommon practice.” Harvey Mackay Posted on January 29, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky Posted on January 26, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.” Bill Vaughan Posted on January 25, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.” S. Wright Posted on January 24, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.” Michelangelo Posted on January 23, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” Socrates Posted on January 22, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Get sales up, but still keep expenses down.” Nelson Peltz Posted on January 19, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.” Marshall Field Posted on January 18, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” George Bernard Shaw Posted on January 15, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” Steve Jobs Posted on January 13, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!” Macbeth Posted on January 12, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants.” George Washington Posted on January 10, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“If you think you teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.” Bill Gross Posted on January 9, 2018 by mplacente Reply
” You can’t exercise or outrun your fork.” Dr. Y. Freedhoff Posted on January 8, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.” George Carlin Posted on January 3, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” Peter Drucker Posted on January 2, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” C. Sagan Posted on January 1, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.” K. Baker Posted on December 30, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Only in America can the Congress make laws that they don’t have to follow.” Unknown Posted on December 29, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw Posted on December 27, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Only in America can you be legally illegal.” K. Garber Posted on December 22, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘see you later.’ ” Eduardo Galeano Posted on December 21, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The truth is that many people use rules to keep from making decisions.” Mike Krzyzewski Posted on December 19, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“When people ask for more time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes doesn’t take half as long to say.” Edith Wharton Posted on December 18, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for over 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” C. Trillin Posted on December 15, 2017 by mplacente 1
“What’s money? A person is a success if they get up in the morning and go to bed at night and in between do what they want to do.” Bob Dylan Posted on December 14, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Once upon a time, no reputable paper would print a sensational claim from a source who won’t vouch for its truth, who got it from a source he won’t identify, who got it from a source he can’t or won’t identify, and all were paid. Times change.” H.W. Jenkins, Jr. Posted on December 12, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Florida has had 119 major hurricanes since 1850, but some people still insist the last one was due to climate change.” Unknown Posted on December 11, 2017 by mplacente 1
“Need now means wanting someone else’s money. Greed means wanting to keep your own. Compassion is when a politician arranges the transfer.” J. Sobran Posted on December 9, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.” A. Mizner Posted on December 7, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Money frees you from doing the things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.” Groucho Marx Posted on December 6, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill Posted on December 5, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Forecasts are mostly guessing plus some math.” Scott Adams Posted on December 2, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Money just brings out the basic traits in people. If they were jerks before they had money, they are later simply jerks with a billion dollars.” Warren Buffett Posted on November 30, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Many of our technology related problems arise because of the unforeseen consequences when apparently benign technologies are employed on a massive scale.” Melvin Kranzberg Posted on November 30, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The only question that doesn’t have an answer is the one that is not asked.” Harvey Mackay Posted on November 28, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.” Steven Wright Posted on November 21, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou has attained it thou art a fool.” S.B. Azzai Posted on November 15, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Sometimes the heart sees what’s invisible to the eye.” Alfred Lloyd Tennyson Posted on November 14, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it.” Kurt Vonnegut Posted on November 13, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“He couldn’t organize a woodpeckers’ picnic in Sherwood Forest.” R. Hood Posted on November 10, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde Posted on November 9, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“People change and forget to tell each other.” Lillian Hellman Posted on November 7, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“A society is moving toward dangerous ground when loyalty to the truth is seen as disloyalty to some supposedly higher interest.” Marilynne Robinson Posted on November 2, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If women do the same job for less money, why do companies hire men to do the same job for more money?” Unknown Posted on November 1, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If you stop speech that hurts other peoples’ feelings, the First Amendment will become a dead letter.” Antonin Scalia Posted on October 30, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual.” Ayn Rand Posted on October 27, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.” Mary McCarthy Posted on October 26, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Citizenship is democracy’s highest office.” Felix Frankfurter Posted on October 26, 2017 by mplacente Reply