Living Within your Means

There are plenty of ways to get ahead.  The first is so basic I’m almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

–Paul Clitheroe

Learning from Others

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

–Socrates

The Fallacy of Fairness

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

–Friedrich von Hayek

 

 

 

Eisenhower on Motivation

Leadership is getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it.

–Dwight Eisenhower

Churchill on Socialism

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; it’s inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

–Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

Branson on Opportunity

Business opportunities are like buses.  There’s always another one coming.

Richard Branson, Entrepreneur

We are Masters of the Congress and the Courts

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts; not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constution.

–Abraham Lincoln

Information Overload

We live in a period of human history in which most of us are over-informed and under-enlightened.

–Kottak & Kozaitis, 2003

Compromising with Evil

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

–Ayn Rand

 

Forbes on Ability

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

–Malcolm Forbes