Investment in Killing

We're making the largest investment of capital that humankind has ever made in weapons over the next five years. We have decided, as a society, that that's where we should put our money, and that raises the deficits and, thus, the cost of our capital.

Source: Steve Jobs, Unsourced

A Problem with Philanthropy

And that's the problem with most philanthropy-- there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation. So if you can't succeed or fail, it's really hard to get better.

Source: Steve Jobs, Unsourced
Taken From: If You Want More Jobs, Look to Steve Jobs, Sovereign Man 10/6/2011

On Not Following The Crowd

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma-- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary

Source: Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005/06/12
Taken From: If You Want More Jobs, Look to Steve Jobs, Sovereign Man 10/6/2011

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On Success

If we followed a rich person around all day, we’d eventually say, no wonder he’s successful, look at EVERYTHING he does.

Source: Dan Kennedy, Unsourced
Taken From: InternetIndependence.com, The One Thing You Need To Do, Oct 10, 2011

Extraordinary

The world does not reward average people well so I will be extraordinary.

Source: Ted Nicholas, Unsourced

Taken From: InternetIndependence.com, The One Thing You Need To Do, Oct 10, 2011

Darwinism in Reverse

Dominic Lawson, writing a review of Connelly’s book for The Sunday Times, explained that: the population-control movement was bankrolled by America's biggest private fortunes - the Ford family foundation, John D Rockefeller III, and Clarence Gamble (of Procter & Gamble). These gentlemen shared not just extreme wealth but a common anxiety: the well-to-do and clever (people like them, obviously) were now having much smaller families than their ancestors, but the great unwashed - Chinamen! Indians! Negroes! - were reproducing themselves in an irresponsible manner. What they feared was a kind of Darwinism in reverse - the survival of the unfittest.

Source: Dominic Lawson, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly. The Sunday Times: May 18, 2008:
Taken From: New Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific Dictatorship: The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom, Part3

American Hires

Intel can thrive today and never hire another American.  It is not our desire, not is not our intention, but we can do that.

Source: Craig Barrett, Intel CEO
Taken From: Superclass, David Rothkpf, 2008, pg 120

One Wish

 If you have but one wish, let it be for an idea.

Source: Percy Sutton (Unsourced)
Taken From: Chart of the Day 8/19

Progress, Creativity and Idea Creation

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Source:  Henry Ford (unsourced)
Taken From:  Everything is a Remix, Pt 3

The Essence of the Market Economy

The surest way to accomplish your business goals is making service to others your primary goal. The key to success is adding value to others' lives.

Source:  Kekich Credo #87
Taken From: Internet Independence, June 27th

Adjusting Ones Morals

I do not adjust the morals of anyone but myself.

William Volker (d 1947)
Source:  "Mr. Anonymous" The Story of William Volker by Herbert C. Cornuelle (1951)

Government Activities

I've learned something about government, Albert, government must be restricted to those activities which can be entrusted to the worst citizens, not the best.

William Volker (d 1947)
Source:  "Mr. Anonymous" The Story of William Volker by Herbert C. Cornuelle (1951)

Shovel Sizes

"How can you afford to give so much money away, Mr. Volker?"

"I heard of another man who was asked that same question. He explained it this way: 'The Lord shovels money to me faster than I can shovel it away. The only conclusion I can come to is that the Lord has a bigger shovel than I do.' "

William Volker (d 1947)
Source:  "Mr. Anonymous" The Story of William Volker by Herbert C. Cornuelle (1951)

Failure to Act

The failure to act is much more often the product of inner, emotional resistance than external resistance.

Dan Kennedy (Online Business Guru)
Taken From:  Internet Independence.com - Link

Mathematical Certainty

If you run the numbers, on all those numbers that you just talked about, which I think are accurate, very accurate, in 20 or 25 years, the United States goes bankrupt ... It’s a mathematical certainty.

John Allison IV (11/2010, Former CEO and Chairman of BB&T, the 10th Largest US Bank)

Monster ATM

These monsters [Fannie and Freddie Mac] are fiercely resistant to any change affecting their ability to tap Uncle Sam's ATM at will while privatizing profits and socializing losses.

Steve Forbes (8/11/2008, Forbes Magazine)

Spending to Recovery

The idea that [government] spending can spur the economy was discredited decades ago....It is very comforting in times of stress to go back to the fairy tales we heard as children but it doesn't make them less false.

John Cochrane (2/27/2009, Bloomberg News)
John Cochrane is a professor at the University of Chicago Business School