Quotes by Wisdom The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership. Louis O. Kelso investingpoliticswisdom Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom. Louis L'Amour libertywisdomuse The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential. Louis O. Kelso politicstechnologywisdom The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal. Louis O. Kelso goalwisdommissing The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. Louis O. Kelso toilmajoritywisdom The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. Louis O. Kelso principleswisdomfirsts I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott confidencewisdominspirational Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another. Lord Chesterfield passionwisdomwise I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within. Louisa May Alcott wisdomwinninginspirational Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield wisdomwiselife A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. Louisa May Alcott freedomwisdomwise It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you. Louise Hay importantwisdompeople As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds. Lucan starswisdommen Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist. Lucan politicswisdomwish Realize that true happiness lies within you. Lucian wisdomfaithinspirational I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things. Lucy Grealy hard-workwisdomtruth Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. Lord Byron sageintelligencewisdom Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. Lucy Maud Montgomery wisdomlifepeople The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. Lucretius stay-strongwisdommotivational The limits of my language means the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophicalcommunicationwisdom«117118119120121122123124125126127»
