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“I do have a diversified retirement plan: 30% hopes, 30% wishes, 40% prayers.” The Wall Street Journal
“I will now give you my ideas about finance. In the first place the Government does not support the people, the people support the Government. The Government produces nothing. It does not plow the land, sow corn, it does not grow trees. the Government is a perpetual consumer.” Robert Ingersoll, 1876
“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.” Peter Drucker
“Having people who know nothing about guns legislate laws regulating them is like having lawyers dictate health care to doctors.” Bob Rosenquist
“After spending over one billion dollars in the election, the Republicans were unable to explain to the average American voter that freedom is more important to them and their future than free stuff.” Richard Polizzi
“Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.” Paul Bowles
“Apple has a larger share of market than BMW, Mercedes or Porsche. What’s wrong with being BMW, Mercedes or Porsche?” Steve Jobs
“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” W. Clement Stone
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” Warren Buffett
“There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.” Will Rogers
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Ben Franklin
“California tax policies: Spend as much money as the people are willing to have someone other than themselves pay in taxes. In short, people prefer providing government more revenues than reducing spending – but only if they don’t have to pay for it!” David Mulliken
“The Tax Foundation notes that nearly 70% of Americans now take more out of the tax system than they pay into it. It is a simple fact that the United States is becoming an entitlement state. It is bankrupting the country and impoverishing the lives of growing millions dependent on unearned resources.” Arthur C. Brooks
“With few exceptions, when a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” Warren Buffett
“People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.” Zig Ziglar
“Here is the perfect pattern of a professional world-saver. His whole life has been devoted to the art and science of spending other people’s money. He has saved millions of the down-trodden from starvation, pestilence, cannibalism, and worse, but always at someone else’s expense, and usually at the taxpayer’s. Of such sort are the wizards who now sweat to save the plain people from the degradations of capitalism.” H.L. Mencken, 1930
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian.” Attributed to Henry Ford
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” Zig Ziglar
“You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.” Harvey Mackay
“I always keep a supply of alcohol handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.” W.C. Fields
“Finality is not the language of politics.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Supply doesn’t create its own demand. The simple fact that we produce more students with bachelor’s degrees doesn’t automatically create more jobs requiring bachelor’s degrees.” George Leef
“Most of those in public office, quite understandably, are firmly against inflation, and firmly in favor of policies producing it.” Warren Buffett
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the last three decades has been replacing what worked with what sounded good.” Thomas Sowell
“Let the Bush tax cuts expire. Since their enactment Democrats have blamed all our economic problems on them. Let’s see if higher taxes spur economic development. The Bush tax cuts took millions of lower-income wage earners off the tax-rolls, and lessened their interest in holding liberal government spenders accountable. Put those workers back in the game.” Paul Kleemeier
“Socialists fail when they can no longer borrow money.” Margaret Thatcher
“The the purpose of insurance is to cover risks too large that the individual is not willing or able to accept. If it covers all payments, essentially making health care free to the individual at the point of purchase, then there is no incentive to manage care or expenses. This fundamental flaw in ObamaCare must be corrected if costs are to be reduced and service is to improve.” Scott J. Engers
“People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.” Lewis H. Lapham
“Global Economy: The system in which goods are built in other countries by people who can’t afford them and are then shipped here, where we can’t afford them because the global economy took all our jobs.”
“History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of history becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.” Jean Cocteau
“The United States has now acquired an electorally powerful liberal bourgeoisie who are convinced, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that public spending is inherently virtuous, that poverty can be cured by penalizing wealth creation, and that government intervention can engineer social fairness. The danger of this philosophy taken to its logical conclusion is economic stagnation and social division.” Janet Daley
“It would be awful to live a penurious, miserable, horrible, boring existence while you’re young, but it would be even worse to be starving or in desperation or unable to sleep when you’re old. However, you genuinely get more enjoyment out of things when you’re young than when you’re old.” Ben Stein
”In the United States business experience is now a political liability.” Daniel Henninger
“Duty – Honor – Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” General Douglas MacArthur
“Fact…our national wealth didn’t come from politicians of any ilk, level, office or ideology. It came from the the long-term, much defiled 1% of the population and their dedicated followers via the marvelous magic of capitalism.” Ken Fisher
“To chose between imperfect candidates representing unwieldy coalitions has been the American way since America’s first contested election. Still America has remarkable powers of political and economic regeneration. It is this legacy – the freedom to choose – that explains the country America is today. It is what gives us the equanimity to face up to our reversals, personal and political.” The Wall Street Journal
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw
“The reason the best-laid plans of mice and men often go wrong is not the plan; it’s the mice and men.” John Corey
“The proper metric for measuring the the success of “affirmative action” programs is graduation rates, not admission rates.” Don Connors
“In different age, President Obama would have been the guy who went out and bought an Edsel. In this age, President Obama is the guy demanding that you buy an Edsel, too. That car today is called the Volt.” Bret Stephens
“Rule #1. is Don’t Lose Money. And Rule #2. is Don’t Forget Rule #1.” Warren Buffett
“President Obama is promising more jobs, immigration reform and a reduced debt if he is re-elected. After all, it worked very well before, why not again?” Galen Shirley
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Lao-Tse
“More than any presidential election since 1980, the current campaign is about the proper size of government. With so fundamental an issue at stake, the chronic claims on behalf of government “solutions” for perceived problems need to be subject to a reality check. Politicians hide the true cost of spending by deficit financing. Recently, deficits have run 30-40 cents of every government dollar spent. Sooner or later interest and this debt will have to be paid.” Michael J. Boskin
“Europe wants prosperity, but it doesn’t want people to get rich.” George Gilder
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain
“One in seven people worldwide use a smartphone. Hopefully, one day, we will never have to look up and into another person’s eyes ever again.” Jimmy Kimmel
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Plato
“He that is good at making excuses, is seldom good for anything else.” Ben Franklin
“You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it out.” Unknown
“You know the Obama’s campaign’s in trouble when they are looking for Joe Biden to turn things around.” David Letterman
“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.” Clare Booth Luce
“Right is right because it’s right, not because you or I like it.” Abraham Lincoln
“We are temporary people making permanent decisions.” A.R. Broccoli
“Pervasive civic ignorance is the worst danger for this country.” David Souter
“English has never been declared our official language for the the simple reason that, until recently, no one doubted that it already was.The naturalization statutes presume that English is the language of U.S. citizens. Why else is English required for naturalization?” John Silber
“Look, if you want jobs – and who doesn’t? – you have to come to terms with reality. Hating business doesn’t just hurt business. It destroys the way forward for everyone.” Jack Welch
“I have come to the conclusion that politics is far too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” Charles de Gaulle
“Come to Nashville, write some songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.” Waylon Jennings
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