All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Tell me you’ve never changed your mind and I’ll tell you you’ve always been an idiot.
Thomas Rainey
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered;… Because she is my rose.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
Learning to fly is one of humankind’s most inspiring achievements. When you learn to fly, it changes who you are and how you think of yourself forever.
John King
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
Elisabeth Elliot
When a man dies, an unknown world passes away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Wind, Sand and Stars
I have gambled and lost. It was all in the day’s work. At least I have had the unforgettable taste of the sea on my lips.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Wind, Sand and Stars
Capitalists and entrepreneurs [are] fully aware of the fact that in the market society there is no means of preserving acquired wealth other than by acquiring it anew each day in tough competition with everybody.
Ludwig von Mises: Human Action
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain’s orders. The captain is the consumer. Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. If a businessman does not strictly obey the orders of the public as they are conveyed to him by the structure of market prices, he suffers losses, he goes bankrupt, and is thus removed from his eminent position at the helm. Other men who did better in satisfying the demand of the consumers replace him. The consumers patronize those shops in which they can buy what they want at the cheapest price. Their buying and their abstention from buying decides who should own and run the plants and the land. They make poor people rich and rich people poor. They determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities. They are merciless egoistic bosses, full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. For them nothing counts other than their own satisfaction.
Ludwig von Mises: Human Action
The entrepreneurial idea that carries on and brings profit is precisely that idea which did not occur to the majority. It is not correct foresight as such that yields profits, but foresight better than that of the rest. The prize goes only to those dissenters who do not let themselves be misled by the errors accepted by the multitude. What makes profits emerge is the provision for future needs for which others have neglected to make adequate provision.
Ludwig von Mises: Human Action
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