We tell people that they have the wrong idea about business, that it really is a game – no more complicated than baseball or
Quotes
Stephen Barrow, investment manager
Wealth is not created by financial engineering. Financial engineering tends to be a transfer of wealth. …The only real way to create wealth is
Ayn Rand, comparisons
“I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything.”
Ayn Rand, nature
he did not face nature with the joy of a healthy animal – as a proper and final setting; he faced it with the
bono Africa environment
Bono thinks it’s all about reducing poverty” says Mike Fay, the hugely influential Wildlife Conservation Society biologist. “That just means getting every human on
mortgaege bailout
Punk Ziegel analyst Richard Bove became the latest high-profile market observer Wednesday to predict that the feds will take action to forestall the collapse
Warren buffett on efficient markets
Most institutional investors in the early 1970s , on the other hand, regarded business value as of only minor relevance when they were deciding
value of free work, a la Craigslist, but Brian Behlendorf
Apache web server – free server software that powers 70% of all web sites. – one of the most successful business software projects ever.
failure in a capitalist society
In at least one way, life in the former Soviet Union was remarkably easy. If something went wrong, Soviet citizens always had somebody, –
lottery, not so lucky
Robert G. Swofford, a postal worker from Seminole County, Florida, won $60M in a lotto drawing. He took more than a month to come