Quotes

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”
Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966

“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.”
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

“I think it’s funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they’re afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that’s all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns — just somebody naming the exact nature of what you’re doing?”
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

“Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“You don’t do things right once in a while. You do them right all the time.”
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

“The torment of mind I endure till the moment shall arrive when I shall not owe a shilling on earth is such really as to render life of little value.”
Thomas Jefferson (he died over $100,000 in debt)

“Avoid the Middleman. Maybe we should think twice about our brokers and mutual funds.Due to its middling performance and high fees, the money-managementindustry as a whole gives no value added to its customers. They arecroupiers taking profits out of the system.”
Charlie Munger, 43 year partner of Warren Buffett

“The only limitation on you and me is within ourselves.”
Marion G. Romney

“‘Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

“‘Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

“The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.”
Harold B. Lee

“The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.”
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

“‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Johann Goethe (1749-1832)

“Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.”
Ayn Rand

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

“The economy is like a beehive. If a section crumbles, the remaining bees repair the damage . . . The economy is more like an ecosystem than a stack of cards. Adaptation and resilience are its hallmarks.”
Roger Lowenstein, Smart Money 10/08