“You cannot negotiate with a tiger with your head in his mouth.” Winston Churchill Posted on January 12, 2021 by tmottet Reply
“Sovereign nations do not act kindly to being pushed around.” J. Mattis Posted on January 12, 2021 by tmottet Reply
“If you can’t say anything nice about a person, go ahead.” George Carlin Posted on December 27, 2020 by tmottet Reply
“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” C. Moser Posted on December 18, 2020 by tmottet Reply
“If you can’t tell which side the reporter is on…it’s news. If you can…it’s opinion.” Sara Sanders Posted on November 29, 2020 by tmottet Reply
“The increasing substitution of hysterical myth making for news is the malignancy of our time.” H.W. Jenkins Jr. Posted on November 15, 2020 by tmottet Reply
“Things are only valued when they come at a price.” T. Jennet Posted on October 31, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” Agatha Christie Posted on October 30, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When the people in charge retreat into fantasy, and demand that everyone else join them there, society itself becomes impervious to reality.” Tucker Carlson Posted on October 27, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Observing and understanding are two different things.” M. Pearson Posted on October 27, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” William James Posted on October 26, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” Warren Buffett Posted on October 21, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“One thing a person cannot do is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.” T. Schelling Posted on October 18, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Happy countries don’t elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do.” Tucker Carlson Posted on October 16, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When there is a gap between perception and reality, it is only a matter of time until it is reconciled…in favor of reality.” John Bogle Posted on October 15, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“A secondary definition of the word ‘academic’ in most dictionaries is: having no practical or useful significance.” L. Gordon Posted on October 15, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“While rational expectations can tell us what will happen…they never tell us when.” John Bogle Posted on October 12, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.” Susan Collins Posted on October 11, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Within the revolution, everything. Against the revolution, nothing.” Fidel Castro Posted on October 11, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” G.W. Carver Posted on October 9, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Only the doctor who has the disease really understands it.” W. Osler Posted on October 8, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The best advice I ever received was ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either’.” Ricky Gervais Posted on October 4, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It’s not a principle until it costs you money.” W. Bembach Posted on October 4, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Mueller’s investigation…unable to find anything but unwilling to stop until he finds something.” D. Henninger Posted on October 2, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“All your life people will tell you things. Probably 95% of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.” Michael Crichton Posted on September 25, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society’s worst actors.” Wil Wheaton Posted on September 24, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“I’ve been sick and NEEDED a doctor. I’ve encountered trouble and NEEDED a police officer. I’ve lived through times of war, when our nation NEEDED our military. I have even NEEDED an auto mechanic, a plumber, a house painter and a lot of other every day people. But I have NEVER, not even once, NEEDED a pro athlete or Hollywood entertainer for anything.” Unknown Posted on September 22, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” J.F. Kennedy Posted on September 18, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“If two-year-olds could band together, they would destroy the world.” Sigmond Freud Posted on September 17, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.” Milton Friedman Posted on September 8, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“America is not just great. It is the greatest.” James Freeman Posted on September 7, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.” Burt Reynolds Posted on September 5, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“People are very open minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” C.F. Kettering Posted on September 4, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Tax stuff is very complicated. The law is riddled with a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.” Jeff Bridges Posted on August 31, 2018 by mplacente Reply
Over 1,000,000+ QOD’s sent since 2006. The first one. A favorite. “Life is not fair. There are no guarantees.” G. Fritz Posted on August 29, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do.” Steve Jobs Posted on August 28, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic.” Nancy Pelosi Posted on August 25, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.” Erich Fromm Posted on August 24, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more or less.” Humpty Dumpty Posted on August 19, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“America was never that great.” Andrew Cuomo, New York’s Democrat Governor Posted on August 17, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible.” Audrey Hepburn Posted on August 17, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The framers of the Constitution wanted citizen politicians who were citizens first and politicians second.” Dana Geiger Posted on August 15, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain Posted on August 14, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Clear language struggles to thrive in the face of passion.” John Crisp Posted on August 9, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The only thing more mobile than the wealthy is their capital.” Milton Friedman Posted on August 8, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“We don’t care what’s true. We care how it feels.” Will Smith Posted on August 4, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The worst combination of all for raising children: unbridled freedom coupled with no responsibility.” J. Labriola Posted on August 1, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When there are multiple solutions to a problem, chose the simplest one.” W. Occam Posted on July 29, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Government is only as sound and effective as the people who are empowered to run it at any given time.” G. Jarrett Posted on July 27, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Remember the relentless rules of humble arithmetic in investing.” Louis Brandeis Posted on July 26, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” Warren Buffett Posted on July 25, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It is always a risk to speak to the press. They are likely to report what you say.” Hubert Humphrey Posted on July 24, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.” Mark Twain Posted on July 20, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“One person may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than everyone else.” Ben Franklin Posted on July 19, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. Stick to the good plan.” Carl von Clausewitz Posted on July 19, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Negotiating: You don’t call the hostage taker an asshole and then ask when he is going to release everyone.” Unknown Posted on July 17, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Work is what you do so that sometime you won’t have to do it anymore.” A. Polgar Posted on July 16, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The name of the investing game is not to get rich, but rather to not get poor.” W. Bernstein Posted on July 15, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“You may be a redneck if…you spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.” Jeff Foxworthy Posted on July 14, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Fear is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.” R. Adler Posted on July 14, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotions.” Dale Carnegie Posted on July 11, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Hard-core leftist leaders do indeed understand you can’t arm slaves and expect them to remain slaves.” A. Korwin Posted on July 5, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Life teaches you how to live it, if you live long enough.” Tony Bennett Posted on July 3, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason – it’s hard to achieve.” Robert Fulton Posted on June 29, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.” Jack Lemmon Posted on June 28, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.” Henry Adams Posted on June 27, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” Bill Gates Posted on June 26, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Unless you can point your finger at the person who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.” Hyman G. Rickover Posted on June 17, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The weak grow strong by effrontery – The strong grow weak through inhibition!” Henry Kissinger Posted on June 12, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Nations do not distrust each other because they’re armed; they are armed because they distrust each other.” Ronald Reagan Posted on June 8, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.” W.C. Fields Posted on June 7, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It’s morally wrong to let a sucker keep his money.” W.C. Fields Posted on June 6, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“You teach values by living them. Don’t say…do!” Ken Langone Posted on May 31, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“You teach values by living them. Don’t say…do!” Ken Langone Posted on May 31, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others.” Tom Wolfe Posted on May 31, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“What’s more important, quantity or quality? Quality of course, as long as you have enough of it.” R.E. McCabe Posted on May 23, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” Warren Buffett Posted on May 22, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.” Russian Proverb Posted on May 18, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Money doesn’t buy everything, but poverty doesn’t do a very good job either.” Ken Langone Posted on May 14, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Dogs look up to you; cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.” Winston Churchill Posted on May 11, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: they were not born billionaires.” S. Ermotti Posted on May 10, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: they were not born billionaires.” S. Ermotti Posted on May 10, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” Abraham Lincoln Posted on May 10, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” George Washington Posted on May 5, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“If you knock down all the laws to get the devil, the next thing that will happen is the devil will use that to come after you.” William Roper Posted on May 1, 2018 by mplacente Reply
“Often what we consider selfishness in others we ascribe as virtue in ourselves .” C. Jameson Posted on April 30, 2018 by mplacente Reply
