“Lincoln logs were patented in 1920 by John Lloyd Wright, the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.” Trivia Posted on April 20, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Through the vicissitudes of wars, panics and depressions, investment in America’s growth and development has never proven a mistake.” Malcolm Forbes Posted on April 19, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“A real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.” James Mattis Posted on April 18, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Spending money is the single greatest power that members of Congress enjoy.” Rush Limbaugh Posted on April 17, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The only real possession you’ll ever have is your character.” Tom Wolfe Posted on April 14, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.” Unknown Posted on April 13, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“There are the protected and the unprotected. The protected make public policy, but they are protected from the world they have created. They’re insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.” Peggy Noonan Posted on April 11, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Repeal and replace ObamaCare must be the first order of business because it is a primary cause of unemployment. Revising our tax code must be a priority if the U.S. is to remain competitive in the world. Scaling down government is a priority if we want to live in a constitutional republic. We have an Energy Department that doesn’t produce energy, an Education Department that doesn’t educate, an Agriculture Department that doesn’t grow anything but itself, and a rogue politicized Environmental Protection Agency, State Department, Justice Department, FBI, CIA that think they are sovereign governments to themselves.” R.D. Brinkley Posted on April 7, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The bedrock truth is that life is hard, especially if you have to compete for prosperity.” Bill O’Reilly Posted on April 6, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If the Mexicans came across the border with law degrees to get jobs, we would already have a wall.” A. Culton Posted on April 5, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.” B. N. Cardozo Posted on April 3, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Maybe we need two Congresses. One to do the useless political committee grandstanding, oversight, and ridiculous investigations looking for gotchas, then doing nothing when found. And another to do what we elected them to do…jointly legislate for the good of America.” JPM Posted on March 31, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” Jonathan Swift Posted on March 30, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Uncertainty is public enemy number 1 for a private investor.” Elizabeth Littlefield Posted on March 24, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“German Engineering, Japanese Manufacturing, American Marketing = Automotive Perfection. Lee Iacocca Posted on March 23, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than a license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.” Dorothy Fisher Posted on March 16, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” George Carlin Posted on March 14, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Law-abiding illegal immigrants whose only crime is using false documents to work. Isn’t that a perfect oxymoron?” Tim Miles Posted on March 6, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“During President Trump’s speech, expressing their disapproval and contempt for the President, the Democratic caucus continued to sit, frown and offer tepid applause or none at all even for lines that would be objectionable to no one outside of ISIS.” James Freeman “The organized post-speech bolt you saw at the moment President Trump ended his speech to a joint session of Congress was the Democrats abandoning the ship of state.” Dan Henninger Posted on March 3, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” George Orwell Posted on March 2, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Politicians owe their primary duty to their own citizens.” W.A. Galston Posted on March 1, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” Henry Ford Posted on February 28, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“What’s the secret to staying around? There is no secret. Just stay around.” Don Rickles Posted on February 27, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Dr. Victor Frankl Posted on February 24, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Democratic capitalism is neither the Kingdom of God nor without sin. Yet all other known systems of political economy are worse. Our last, best hope for alleviating poverty and removing tyranny – lies in this much despised system. Too many have no understanding of how economics work, and thus they focus on redistributing wealth without regard to how wealth is created.” Michael Novak Posted on February 23, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Reliability is the cornerstone of business. You simply cannot succeed without it. It is as simple as doing what you say you’re going to do.” G. Boulet Posted on February 22, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Liberals want to help people who are disadvantaged, whereas conservatives want to prevent people from becoming disadvantaged.” Thomas Sowell Posted on February 21, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Envy is the most destructive social passion. It seldom operates under it’s own name; it choses a lovelier name to hide behind (fairness, equality). In previous republics, it has set class against class, city sections against city sections, families against families. Early Americans stood against division (divided we fall) and sought to neutralize envy.” Michael Novak Posted on February 20, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” Leo Tolstoy Posted on February 17, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” Arthur C. Clarke Posted on February 16, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” S. J. Lec Posted on February 15, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don’t.” John Hurt Posted on February 14, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.” Will Rogers Posted on February 13, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun.” Stephen Colbert Posted on February 11, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” General George S. Patton Posted on February 10, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.” Pete Seeger Posted on February 9, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“We are never prepared for what we expect.” James Michener Posted on February 9, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Why doesn’t anyone ever write fake news about something pleasant?” Frank & Ernest Posted on February 6, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“So powerful is the political appeal of entitlement programs that modern democracies routinely chose bankruptcy over curtailing them.” Phil Gramm Posted on February 3, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Nobody remembers when it turns out right…and nobody forgets when it turns out wrong.” J. Stahler Posted on February 2, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Democrats will lie, cheat, and steal to delegitimize Trump’s presidency. They have already started!” David Horowitz Posted on February 1, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The further society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” Orson Wells Posted on January 31, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.” Ben Franklin Posted on January 30, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” J.W. Von Goethe Posted on January 26, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.” Robert Burns Posted on January 25, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“It’s easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get a single remedy.” Chinese Proverb Posted on January 24, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” Hubert H. Humphrey Posted on January 23, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“President Trump’s success will depend above all on delivering on his promises of prosperity at home and greater respect for America abroad.” The Wall Street Journal Posted on January 21, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” Dean Acheson Posted on January 20, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“There is no such thing as luck, but sometimes you can get very lucky.” A.C. Thomas Posted on January 18, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics – it doesn’t matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.” Lewis Carroll Posted on January 17, 2017 by mplacente 1
“Fairness is a concept that was invented so kids and idiots could participate in debates.” Dogbert Posted on January 16, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“A long term investor is one who is losing so much money that they can’t afford to sell.” M. Krantz Posted on January 13, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted on January 12, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” John Wooden Posted on January 11, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“There is no such thing as security for any nation – or any individual – in a world ruled by the principles of gangsterism.” Franklin Roosevelt Posted on January 9, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Worm or beetle – drought or tempest – on a farmer’s land may fall, each is loaded full o’ruin, but a mortgage beats ’em all.” Will Carleton Posted on January 5, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden Posted on January 4, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“In 2016 we learned that the Russians were more involved in our election process than the League of Woman Voters.” Dave Barry Posted on January 3, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“To be a good investor you have to be right much of the time. To be a great investor you have to recognize how often you may be wrong.” Jason Zweig Posted on January 2, 2017 by mplacente Reply
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it’s part of a tree.” Michael Crichton Posted on December 28, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.” David Ricardo Posted on December 23, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“For some it doesn’t mean ‘liar.’ It means ‘dissembler.’ This is a particular subspecies of lying. It’s a very lawyerly, sophisticated, elastic lie.” Paul Greenberg Posted on December 22, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“People prefer to believe what they prefer to be true. All the facts in the world will not dissuade some people.” Sir Francis Bacon Posted on December 20, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” General James Mattis Posted on December 18, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness.” R.A. Heinlein Posted on December 16, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.” Teddy Roosevelt Posted on December 14, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge Posted on December 13, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The great enemy of communication is the illusion of it.” W.H. Whyte Posted on December 2, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The existence of the law of gravity does not mean man cannot create an airplane. However, an airplane must be created within the context of the law of gravity.” J.A. Allison IV Posted on December 1, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“It’s amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone speaks your language.” A. Adiga Posted on November 30, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“It’s not the mistake you make, it’s how you react to that mistake.” Sting Posted on November 29, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” E.B. White Posted on November 28, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Fairness is about equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes.” Kellyanne Conway Posted on November 23, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions.” George W. Bush Posted on November 22, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.” R.F. Kennedy Posted on November 21, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Rent things that depreciate. Buy things that appreciate.” J. Paul Getty Posted on November 18, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The U.S. government has a technology called a printing press…that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.” Ben Bernanke Posted on November 17, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“I think the government’s solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.” Milton Friedman Posted on November 16, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” G.B. Shaw Posted on November 15, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“An educated public is the most effective bulwark against the perversion of power into tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on November 14, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Trump voters had profound contempt for a dysfunctional, hyper-prosperous Washington that they saw as utterly removed from their lives.” Alec MacGillis Posted on November 11, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men (or women).” George Eliot Posted on November 10, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Trump voters proved that neither pollsters nor journalists get to pick the president.” Arizona Republic Editorial Board Posted on November 9, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The case for Mrs. Clinton over Donald Trump is that she is a familiar member of the elite and thus less of a jump into the unknown, especially on foreign policy. The case against her is everything we know about her political history.” The Wall Street Journal Posted on November 7, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“Public opinion decides election outcomes. The media decides public opinion.” JPM Posted on November 4, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.” Joseph Stalin Posted on November 3, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The reporter’s job is to give people good, solid, fair information. They can figure out what to do with it”. Wesley Clark, 1970 “Sadly, the media no longer believe it.” Richard Benedetto Posted on November 2, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The Clintons do not draw any lines between their “charitable” work, their political activity, their government jobs or their personal enrichment.” Kimberly Strassel Posted on October 31, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“A Hillary Clinton presidency will be built, from the ground up, on self-dealing, crony favors, and an utter disregard for the law. This isn’t a guess. It is spelled out, in black and white, in the latest bombshell email revelation from WikiLeaks.” K.A. Strassel Posted on October 28, 2016 by mplacente Reply
“The more opportunities you give yourself to make a mistake, the more likely it is you’ll eventually make one.” Dan Caplinger Posted on October 27, 2016 by mplacente Reply
