"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk."

Brecht, Bertolt on bankers and banking   

"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it."

Brecht, Bertolt on law and lawyers
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars."

Baruch, Bernard M. on business   

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

Baruch, Bernard M. on voting
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"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

Buffett, Warren on business
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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

Buffett, Warren on value
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"A stockbroker is someone who invests your money until it's all gone."

Allen Woody on investment   

"It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

Buffett, Warren on success
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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

Buffett, Warren on management   

"But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. "

Keynes, John Maynard on uncategorised   

"In the long run we are all dead."

Keynes, John Maynard on death   

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

Keynes, John Maynard on taxes and taxation   

"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."

Keynes, John Maynard on money   

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."

Churchill, Winston on home
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"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit."

Baruch, Bernard M. on business
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"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking."

Baruch, Bernard M. on success
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Churchill, Winston on opinions
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

Churchill, Winston on justice
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

Keynes, John Maynard on inflation   

"If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid."

Keynes, John Maynard on economy and economics   

"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"

Rogers, Will on
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

Rogers, Will on stupidity   

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

Rogers, Will on praise   

"This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on learning
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"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Rogers, Will on gambling   

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."

Berra, Yogi on practice
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"You can observe a lot by just watching."

Berra, Yogi on observation
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"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

Berra, Yogi on the future
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"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Hegel, Friedrich on history and historians
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