“A people who want wealth without work will have neither.” Bret Stephens Posted on July 8, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“You have to recognize that your own thoughts are not your own. They filtered and percolated in from other people and your own circumstances.” Robert Shiller Posted on July 6, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.” Amy Schumer Posted on July 2, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi Posted on July 1, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.” Colin Powell Posted on June 30, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Own your life. It doesn’t just happen to you.” Anna Quindlen Posted on June 29, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.” Milton Friedman Posted on June 26, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat – you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is now run by idiots.” Unknown Posted on June 25, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot Posted on June 23, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“An army of sheep led by a lion will defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.” Vaquero Saying Posted on June 22, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“My Dad drives so slow when we’re on the highway, Amish people give us the finger.” Dan Rosen Posted on June 21, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“I have never in my life learned anything from anyone who agreed with me.” D.F. Malone Posted on June 19, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.” Tina Fey Posted on June 18, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.” Bob Monkhouse Posted on June 18, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The record of history is crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.” Milton Friedman Posted on June 15, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“We couldn’t live a day without depending on everybody.” Will Rogers Posted on June 14, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be, in the eyes of the good and pure, what you were before.” Mark Twain Posted on June 12, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“It’s not how far you’ve traveled, it’s what you’ve brought back.” T. Terzani Posted on June 10, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The truth is wherever you find it — and the process of trying to find it is what education should be about, regardless of what conclusions they reach.” Thomas Sowell Posted on May 30, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“It doesn’t matter what can’t be done. So long as we have to do it, we can do it.” Henry J. Kaiser Posted on May 28, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“News is about things that happen, not things that don’t happen. We never see a reporter saying to the camera, here we are, live from a country that has not been bombed or a school that has not been shot up. As long as violence occurs somewhere, there will always be enough to fill the news.” S. Pinker Posted on May 27, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Should we tolerate a public educational system with its entrenched self interest in which virtually every inner-city parent knows is destroying any hope or possibility of their children achieving meaningful opportunity in the 21st Century Economy?” John M. Templeton, Jr. Posted on May 24, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Why should we look to the past to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.” James Burke Posted on May 22, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“If people weren’t wrong so often, Buffett and I wouldn’t be so rich.” Charlie Munger Posted on May 21, 2015 by mplacente Reply
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“There used to be a time when if someone was living their life a different way than you, you’d just say, ‘Well that’s not my cup of tea’. You wouldn’t create policy around it.” Sarah Silverman Posted on May 18, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Absence of accountability: low standards are the outcome.” Patrick Lencioni Posted on May 14, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Go the extra mile. That extra 10% effort makes a 100% difference. It really does.” Ian Callum Posted on May 14, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“From 2011 to 2013, according to tax records, just 10% of the Clinton Foundation’s budget was spent on charitable grants. The other 90% went to expenses such as lavish trips by the Clintons and staff, celebrity filled conferences, and generous salaries for long-time cronies. The whole operation has been run as forthrightly as the KGB.” Kyle Smith “In 2013, the Better Business Bureau found the charity failed to meet the minimum standards of accountability and transparency.” Posted on May 13, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.” Warren Buffett Posted on May 9, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.” Thomas Sowell Posted on May 8, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“California is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology.” Carly Fiorina Posted on May 6, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.” Mike Tyson Posted on May 5, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac.” George Carlin Posted on May 4, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.” Marie Curie Posted on May 3, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” Albert Einstein Posted on April 30, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“People say money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you had enough money, you can have a key made.” Joan Rivers Posted on April 28, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.” Eugene McCarthy Posted on April 24, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“With better economic policies America was like the fabled farmer with the goose that laid the golden eggs. He kept the pond clean and full, erected a nice coop, threw out corn for the goose and every day the goose laid a golden egg. President Obama drained the pond, burned down the coop and let the dogs loose to chase the goose around the barnyard. Now that the goose has stopped laying golden eggs, the administration’s apologists – arguing that we are now in ‘secular stagnation’ – add insult to injury by insisting there is something wrong with the goose.” Phil Gramm Posted on April 23, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Adlai Stevenson Posted on April 21, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.” George Burns Posted on April 20, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Political bargains of the past are the burden of the future.” Mancur Olson Posted on April 18, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The State Department, after doing a recent extensive review, recommended removing Cuba from the terrorist list to reopen communications and trade with a dictator led (communist) regime. This is the same State Department that has been reviewing the Keystone pipeline for the last six years and can’t figure out how to give President Obama the answer he’d like.” S. Jessup Posted on April 14, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Let’s take the Iranians at their word. Because they mean it. Death to America means Death to America. Nothing more. Nothing less.” R.D. Kunzelman Posted on April 13, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” Ambrose Bierce Posted on April 11, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity.” Billy Graham Posted on April 9, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Everybody you ever meet knows something you don’t.” Bill Nye Posted on April 7, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you will have their shoes.” Unknown Posted on April 3, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.” Randy Pausch Posted on April 1, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end; communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote.” Ayn Rand Posted on March 30, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” Ayn Rand Posted on March 27, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” G.K. Chesterton Posted on March 26, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.” Seth Godin Posted on March 25, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Totalitarianism: Everything not forbidden is compulsory.” T.H. White Posted on March 23, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t let the evils that have never happened cost you pain.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on March 20, 2015 by mplacente Reply
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“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” Jim Rohn Posted on March 18, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Never spend your money before you have it.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on March 17, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” Charlie Munger Posted on March 13, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“If you want me in on the landing, include me in the takeoff.” George Schultz Posted on March 12, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Never buy anything that you can’t illustrate on the back of a napkin.” Peter Lynch Posted on March 11, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Some sins no doubt disqualify leaders from continuing in leadership, but more fail in leadership from their deceptions than from their mistakes.” J.C. Maxwell Posted on March 10, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” Garrison Keillor Posted on March 9, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“American foreign policy must be judged by this criterion: does it serve the best interests of the United States?” M. Stanton Evans Posted on March 5, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” William Penn Posted on March 4, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“You can only predict things after they’ve happened.” Eugene Ionesco Posted on March 3, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Muhammad Ali Posted on March 2, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The advice I would give to a young person – would be…Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.” Jerry Seinfeld Posted on February 28, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The four most dangerous words in investing are: this time it’s different.” Sir John Templeton Posted on February 26, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.” Bil Gates Posted on February 24, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“This government can only sell the illusion, and put itself in a position where it is free from judgment of its efforts. It does this, first of all, by stating inchoate goals, “change, hope, fairness, peace,” and then indicting those who question them as traitors or ogres; finally, it explains its lack of success by reference to persistent if magical forces put in play by its predecessors and yet uneradicated because of insufficient funding.” David Mamet Posted on February 23, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Beethoven could tell you how to write a symphony, but you can’t write a symphony like Beethoven did.” Jack Bogle Posted on February 22, 2015 by mplacente Reply
BHO… “A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country –but his own.” George Canning Posted on February 21, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?” Steve Jobs Posted on February 20, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover your high school class is running the country.” Kurt Vonnegut Posted on February 19, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it’s what you do with them that’s important.” Jim Rohn Posted on February 17, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” Warren Buffett Posted on February 13, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Thomas Watson, IBM Chairman, 1943 Posted on February 10, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.” Ulysses S. Grant Posted on February 9, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Fact: Anything you tax, you get less of. Anything you subsidize, you get more of.” Jack Kemp Posted on February 7, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” U.S. Grant Posted on February 6, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“National defense should have a strategy-driven budget, not a budget-driven strategy.” Henry Kissinger Posted on February 5, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.” Clarence Darrow Posted on February 4, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates and declaring certain capabilities off limits is no way to operate.” General James Mattis, USMC “You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.” Lt. General Michael Flynn, USA Posted on February 3, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“As the price of college continues to outpace both inflation and the growth of average family incomes, students, parents, and policy makers are demanding to know just what families are getting for their money. The short, unsettling answer: No one really knows!” Thomas Sowell Posted on February 2, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Cradle-to-grave fairness may be infantile, but the idea lives on, especially in politics and most of all in Obama’s mind.” Daniel Henninger Posted on January 31, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“The nature of government is to perpetually grow. And the nature of politics and politicians is to seek wealth, power and aggrandizement. They represent government, not you.” Bob Livingston Posted on January 29, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“My accomplishments as Secretary of State? Well, I’m glad you asked! My proudest accomplishment in which I take the most pride, mostly because of the opposition it faced early on, you know the remnants of prior situations and mindsets that were too narrowly focused in a manner whereby they may have overlooked the bigger picture and we didn’t do that and I’m proud of that. Very proud. I would say that’s a major accomplishment.” ?????? Hillary Clinton March 11, 2014 Posted on January 28, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.” Henny Youngman Posted on January 27, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“It will be a long time – perhaps not in our lifetime – before the price of gold returns to the peak of $850 an ounce.” Forbes Magazine, 1981 Posted on January 26, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“I spent 90 percent of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted.” George Best Posted on January 25, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“When angry, count to 10 before you speak; if very angry, count to 100.” Thomas Jefferson Posted on January 24, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Those who have knowledge don’t predict. Those who predict don’t have knowledge.” Lao Tzu Posted on January 23, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.” Henry Rosovsky Posted on January 20, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“I learned early on that if you don’t want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don’t write any.” Dick Cheney Posted on January 19, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“Don’t forget the statistician who drowned crossing a river with an average depth of just 2 feet.” B. Wesbury Posted on January 19, 2015 by mplacente Reply
“If you’re in the presence of a true expert, you will understand everything they say. If you don’t understand what someone is saying, they are not an expert.” Nido Qubein Posted on January 18, 2015 by mplacente Reply