The new law of evolution in corporate America, seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I’ve been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of $12 billion!
the movie, Wall Street
Medicare, let’s remember, is a handout…
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.
On Medicare ‘Reform’, July 9, 2003, Wall Street Journal.
Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)
BORE: A person who talks when you Ewish Ehim Eto Elisten.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American satirist and social critic, in OThe DevilOs DictionaryO, 1911
Thing of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
John Quincy Adams
‘We do have inveterate antipathy for communism — or paranoia as I like to put it,’ young Gore wrote to his father. He went on to consider the policy implications of this American Cold War obsession. ‘My own belief is that this form of psychological ailment — in this case a national — leads the victim to actually create the thing which is feared the most. It strikes me that this is precisely what the U.S. has been doing. Creating — and if not creating, energetically supporting — fascist, totalitarian regimes in the name of fighting totalitarianism. Greece, South Vietnam, a good deal of Latin America. For me, the best example of all is the U.S. Army.’ Al Gore
The New Yorker, 11/28/94
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States, 1961-1963 (1917-1963)
I think the Parliament of Great Britain hath no more right to put their hands into my pocket, without my consent, than I have to put my hands into yours for money. George Washington
1774, 1732-1799.
This Administration’s objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy. Ronald Wilson Reagan
First Inaugural Address (January 20, 1981) E
Why a museum of communism? Let us start counting the reasons, up to 100 million and more. That’s how many people died at the hands of communist governments over the past eight decades, and the world must not forget them. … Most of those 100 million-plus victims were Chinese and Russian, and most died from famines engineered by Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin (it’s estimated that Mao’s famine of 1960-61 killed more than 50 million). IBD
Investor’s Business Daily, Monday June 16, 1997