Bernard Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. – Bernard Baruch Average Quotes Correct Quotes Cut Quotes Fortune Quotes Hitting√¢ Quotes Losses Quotes Person Quotes Sense Quotes Speculator Quotes Time Quotes Times Quotes Ventures Quotes Wrong Quotes Yield Quotes You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
John Lanchester To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as ‘Lord of the Rings’ is an epic. But ‘The Hobbit’ isn’t an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it’s full of adventures and excitement, they’re on a different scale to those of the bigger book. – John Lanchester
Gyles Brandreth It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was 20. When the Queen and the Duke were in their early 20s, it’s around 1940. Their values are the values of Britain in 1940; all that is best of Britain in 1940 is exemplified by the Duke. – Gyles Brandreth
Cody Rhodes I always tried to stand out as a ref. I wore a long-sleeve black Under Armour t-shirt so that you knew I was the cool ref as opposed to the old dude. – Cody Rhodes
Nick Lowe All those years we’d spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you’d play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business. – Nick Lowe
Stanley Hauerwas The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor. – Stanley Hauerwas
Manoj Bhargava Most of the people don’t know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy. – Manoj Bhargava
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