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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan

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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

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It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
Edwin Lefevre

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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen

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They’re turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers.
But what’s the real cost?
‘Cause the sneakers don’t seem that much cheaper.
Why are we still paying so much for sneakers
When you got them made by little slave kids
What are your overheads?
Flight of the Conchords

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If you hold back anything, I’ll kill ya. If you bend the truth, or I think you’re bending the truth, I’ll kill ya. If you forget anything, I’ll kill ya. In fact, you’re gonna have to work very hard to stay alive Nick. Now, do you understand everything I’ve just said? Cause’ if you don’t, I’ll kill ya!
Rory Breaker in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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[Applied economics and policy analysis] boil down to three imperatives (ten little words).
1) at what cost?
2) compared to what?
3) how do you know?
Peter Gordon (Ht: Newmark’s door.)

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When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
Dieter Dengler in Rescue Dawn

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Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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In terms of understanding corporate finance, economists have it all wrong when they say “there is no free lunch”. Rather, the more appropriate comment ought to be “somebody has to pay for lunch – and it isn’t going to be me.”
Martin Whitman, Portfolio Manager of Third Avenue Value Fund

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When the Journal gets its Page 3 girls, we’ll make sure they have MBAs.
Rupert Murdoch

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Heisenberg

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Payin anything to roll the dice,
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on
Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin”

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc

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