The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Stephen Covey

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Katherine Mansfield

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith

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 farms. 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 bosses, full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. For them nothing counts other than their own satisfaction. They do not care a whit for past merit and vested interests. If something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. In their capacity as buyers and consumers they are hard-hearted and callous, without consideration for other people.http://www.mises.org/humanaction.asp

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action,

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

Steve Carlton

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Andrew Motion

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Antonin Artaud

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Randy Johnson

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Peter Brimelow

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Newt Gingrich

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Michael Ondaatje