What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don’t wuss out.
—Michael Bloomberg (American Businessperson)
The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.
—John Adams (American Head of State)
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
—Jerry Seinfeld (American Comedian)
It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.
—Robert J. Shiller
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep..
—Woody Allen (American Actor)
Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
—Ayn Rand (Russian-born American Novelist)