“Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.” Jack Welch Posted on January 23, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“To err is human, but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.” Dame Agatha Christie Posted on January 22, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.” Dale Carnegie Posted on January 21, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Obamacare: To insure the uninsured, we first make the insured uninsured, and then make them pay more to be insured again, so the original uninsured can be insured for free.” G. Werner Posted on January 20, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.” George W. Bush Posted on January 17, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“I have trained myself to notice what I see.” Sherlock Holmes Posted on January 15, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.” Mark Cuban Posted on January 14, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“The difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein Posted on January 13, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t ever give up your ability to make your own money.” John C. Bogle Posted on January 10, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Prediction is very difficult, especially when it’s about the future.” Niels Bohr Posted on January 9, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.” Carl Ichan Posted on January 8, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“The socialist myth system of promises: the eternally promised fantasy that good government is here to protect and provide for us, ensnares the idealistic young, the Social Security/Medicare crowd, and a good portion of the working middle class. This provides the illusion that since we are all paying into the system it allows voters to justify attacking rich folks for not paying their fair share.” Joe Boccuzi Posted on January 7, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“President Obama has adopted virtually every anti-growth measure known to mankind, including higher taxes, strangulating government regulation, demonization of successful entrepreneurs, favoritism to labor unions, and the crown jewel of them all, ObamaCare.” R.M. Sussman Posted on January 6, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t buy a financial product that you don’t understand, and don’t buy it from a person who can’t explain it so you can understand it.” Sallie Krawcheck Posted on January 3, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“It’s very risky to tell poorly mannered people how to behave. They usually take offense and get worse.” J.M. Laskas Posted on January 2, 2014 by mplacente Reply
“That government is best that governs least.” Attributed to Thomas Jefferson Posted on December 31, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The wise man must be wise before, not after.” Epicharmus Posted on December 30, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? Unknown Posted on December 27, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.” Sir John Templeton Posted on December 26, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The UN was not created to take humanity to heaven but to save it from hell.” Dag Hammarskjold Posted on December 23, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Be always sure you’re right – then go ahead.” David Crockett Posted on December 20, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Gary Shilling Posted on December 12, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.” George Carlin Posted on December 10, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Politics is just show business for ugly people.” Jay Leno Posted on December 4, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“There is still no cure for the common birthday.” John Glenn Posted on November 28, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” Mitt Romney Posted on November 27, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start.” Harvey Mackay Posted on November 23, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“If 80% of Obamacare website visitors complete the sign up it will be a 100% success.” Website Administration Semantics Posted on November 20, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The most important term in any contract isn’t in the contract; it’s dealing with people who are honest.” Harvey Mackay Posted on November 19, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“A pessimist is someone who feels bad when he feels good because he is afraid he’ll feel worse in the future.” Tim Masters Posted on November 19, 2013 by mplacente Reply
” …when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.” Posted on November 13, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.” Anita Roddick Posted on November 12, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“If politicians have more of other people’s money to spend, they will spend it.” Raymond Pecaut Posted on November 7, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.” Vaclav Klaus Posted on November 5, 2013 by mplacente Reply
” If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion. Few things are as destructive and limiting as a world-view that assumes people are mostly rational.” Scott Adams Posted on November 5, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Every skill you acquire doubles your odds for success.” Scott Adams Posted on November 1, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“They don’t pay off on effort…they pay off on results.” Harvey Mackay Posted on October 31, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Any society that relies on nine unelected judges to resolve the most serious issues of the day is not a functioning democracy.” Justice Anthony Kennedy Posted on October 30, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.” Mary McCarthy Posted on October 28, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The majority of Americans are voting for a living rather than working for a living.” John Hagee Posted on October 23, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” Harvey Mackay Posted on October 21, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“In the liberal view, no one should suffer for having committed a crime, failed to attend school, failed to diligently look for work, failed to support one’s family and on and on. The basic battle in this country is between those who believe in personal responsibility and those who do not.” And, want to pay for it with someone else’s money. Bart McPherson Posted on October 11, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“We are always hearing about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about Welfare running out of money?” Unknown Posted on October 9, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.” Art Buchwald Posted on October 8, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The assumption that government is wiser than markets and capable of willing into existence the preferred industrial or social alternative, something a couple of centuries of experience in industrial democracies casts considerable doubt about.” Robert Robb Posted on October 7, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The 10/2 WSJ article describes essential government employees having to work without pay, but it fails to tell the reader that all of those employees and others will receive full back pay once the government shutdown ends.” Scott Blackburn Posted on October 4, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” Abraham Lincoln Posted on October 3, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before.” Art Buchwald Posted on October 3, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush Posted on October 1, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Things have been going great since we redefined success as slowing the rate of failure.” Scott Adams Posted on September 30, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.” LeFevre Posted on September 27, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on September 26, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“You don’t need 20 decisions to get very rich. Four or five will probably do it over time.” Warren Buffett Posted on September 25, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Good intentions do not repeal the laws of economics.” James Sherk Posted on September 24, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Posted on September 24, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Posted on September 20, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.” W.C Fields Posted on September 19, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“People who are successful tend to remain successful. People who are happy tend to remain happy. People who are respected tend to remain respected. People who reach their goals tend to go on reaching their goals.” Nido Qubein Posted on September 19, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Before you speak, think: Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve on the silence?” Sai Baba Posted on September 17, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Just because you’re taught something is right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.” Mark Twain Posted on September 16, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“To the many critics of America, in Europe and around the globe, I say this: if you didn’t like that old world in which the United States regularly intervened, just see how you like the new one in which it doesn’t.” T. G. Ash Posted on September 15, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit each party is worse than the other.” Will Rogers Posted on September 13, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.” David Hume Posted on September 11, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” Mark Twain Posted on September 10, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.” Will Rogers Posted on September 9, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein Posted on September 6, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Buy things that appreciate and rent things that depreciate.” John Paul Getty Posted on September 4, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The very essence of socialist thought: Life is hopeless, unfair, useless, and only the intellectual elite can make your existence better for you by restoring equality, fraternity and maybe liberty.” H. McKinney Posted on August 30, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Ronald Reagan Posted on August 29, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein Posted on August 27, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Martin Luther Posted on August 23, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.” Ray Kroc Posted on August 22, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you’ve earned, but not greed to want to take someone else’s money.” Thomas Sowell Posted on August 21, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The likelihood that ObamaCare will make our health system as dysfunctional and expensive as the rest of government is extremely high.” Ryan Pierce Posted on August 21, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Whenever the government gets involved in an activity that is not properly any of its business, we get the infamous trio: waste, fraud, abuse, and then the politicians feel the need to meddle still more in an effort to solve the problems they’ve created.” George Leef Posted on August 19, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone except God” – Billy Graham Posted on August 15, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face.” Mike Tyson Posted on August 13, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“When there is danger, a good leader takes the front line; but when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back of the room.” Nelson Mandela Posted on August 12, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it, and now you’re on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggrievement and entitlement, and you still won’t have a job.” Condaleeza Rice Posted on August 9, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The second shortest distance in Washington now runs between an Obama speech and its empirical disproof.” Bret Stephens Posted on August 6, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the cynicism and self-dealing of the American political class.” H. L. Mencken Posted on August 6, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.” Johnny Depp Posted on August 3, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Income morality is the avoidance or reduction of suffering.” Kentaro Toyama Posted on August 1, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The real destroyer of the liberties of people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” Plutarch, 46-120 AD Posted on July 31, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Diplomacy is the art of saying, ‘Nice doggie’, until you can find a rock.” Will Rogers Posted on July 31, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Let me just say this: You know your campaign is not going well when you open a press conference by saying, ‘I told you there would be more lewd photos’.” David Letterman Posted on July 29, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“The most important five-letter word in business is trust.” Harvey Mackay Posted on July 26, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Unless you’re a multi-billionaire, no one is going to remember you for your money. Your spirit is the currency that lasts.” Craig Matters Posted on July 26, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.” Mark Twain Posted on July 24, 2013 by mplacente Reply
Ineptocracy – We’re There “A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.” Posted on July 24, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” Thomas Sowell Posted on July 22, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” W. Clement Stone Posted on January 26, 2013 by mplacente Reply
“I welcome any criticism you have that does not affect me.” Unknown Posted on January 25, 2013 by tmottet
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Henry Ford Posted on January 24, 2013 by tmottet Reply
“The most common things occur most commonly.” Dr. David Brooks Posted on January 23, 2013 by tmottet Reply
