{"id":1482,"date":"2012-11-04T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/?page_id=1482"},"modified":"2021-12-10T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:22:43","slug":"business-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/?page_id=1482","title":{"rendered":"Create a Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Talk is cheap. What you do is more important than what you say. It is the what you do that makes all the difference. Substance is what matters\/counts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every person in the world benefits from American ingenuity, imagination, and innovation. All creativity, design, development, and technology has an American fingerprint on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8689\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CapitalismBuiltAmericaRespectsRightsAndCreatesFreedom.jpg\" ><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8689\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CapitalismBuiltAmericaRespectsRightsAndCreatesFreedom-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CapitalismBuiltAmericaRespectsRightsAndCreatesFreedom-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CapitalismBuiltAmericaRespectsRightsAndCreatesFreedom-768x461.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CapitalismBuiltAmericaRespectsRightsAndCreatesFreedom-600x360.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/CapitalismBuiltAmericaRespectsRightsAndCreatesFreedom.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitalism Built America, Respects Rights, and Creates Freedom.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou will achieve the greatest results in business and career if you drop the word achievement from your vocabulary and replace it with contribution. Contribution puts the focus where it should be\u2013on your customers, employees, and shareholders.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Drucker\" >Peter Drucker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way we get started is to quit talking and begin doing.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Disney\" >Walt Disney<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nodding the head does not row the boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A person is rich or poor according to what he or she is and does, not according to what he or she has and says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLogic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\" >Albert Einstein<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.&#8221;\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\" >Albert Einstein<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t explain it simply, you don&#8217;t understand it well enough.&#8221;\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\" >Albert Einstein<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagination and innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Jobs\" >Steve Jobs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.&#8221;&#8211;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Paine\" ><em>Thomas Paine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as you\u2019re going to be thinking anyway, think big.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" >Donald Trump<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else&#8217;s head instead of with one&#8217;s own.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schopenhauer\" >Arthur Schopenhauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8687\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SocialismDestroysAmericaRobsProsperityAndKillsAmbition.jpg\" ><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8687\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SocialismDestroysAmericaRobsProsperityAndKillsAmbition-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SocialismDestroysAmericaRobsProsperityAndKillsAmbition-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SocialismDestroysAmericaRobsProsperityAndKillsAmbition-768x445.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SocialismDestroysAmericaRobsProsperityAndKillsAmbition-600x347.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SocialismDestroysAmericaRobsProsperityAndKillsAmbition.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socialism Destroys America, Robs Prosperity, and Kills Ambition.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Edison\" >Thomas Edison<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapital isn\u2019t scarce; vision is.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Walton\" >Sam Walton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zig_Ziglar\" >Zig Ziglar<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation is taxation without legislation.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Friedman\" >Milton Friedman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Friedman\" >Milton Friedman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Reagan\" >Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.\u201d\u2013 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Frost\" >Robert Frost<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ogilvy_(businessman)\" >David Ogilvy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not failed. I\u2019ve just found 10,000 ways that won\u2019t work.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_A._Edison\" >Thomas A. Edison<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_Wang\" >An Wang<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no substitute for hard work.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_A._Edison\" >Thomas A. Edison<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_C._Brown\" >Les Brown<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you always put problems off and never solve them or anything, the next problem or crisis is always just around the corner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10236\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TheCapitalistAndConservativeX.jpg\" ><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10236\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TheCapitalistAndConservativeX-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TheCapitalistAndConservativeX-300x220.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TheCapitalistAndConservativeX-600x440.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TheCapitalistAndConservativeX.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Capitalist &amp; Conservative.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Internet, like telephones, and other similar technology, grows more valuable as more join in.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Metcalfe\" >Robert Metcalfe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Ford\" >Henry Ford<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B._C._Forbes\" >B.C. Forbes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\" >Albert Einstein<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don\u2019t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.\u201d\u2013 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ogilvy_(businessman)\" >David Ogilvy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" >Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrive your business. Let not your business drive you.\u201d\u2013 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" >Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.\u201d\u2013<em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" >Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime is money.\u201d\u2013 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" >Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power of imagination makes us infinite.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Muir\" >John Muir<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pablo_Picasso\" >Pablo Picasso<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9077\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TheDefinitionOfInsanityIsDoingTheSameThingOverAndOverAndExpectingDifferentResults.jpg\" ><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9077\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TheDefinitionOfInsanityIsDoingTheSameThingOverAndOverAndExpectingDifferentResults-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TheDefinitionOfInsanityIsDoingTheSameThingOverAndOverAndExpectingDifferentResults-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TheDefinitionOfInsanityIsDoingTheSameThingOverAndOverAndExpectingDifferentResults-768x515.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TheDefinitionOfInsanityIsDoingTheSameThingOverAndOverAndExpectingDifferentResults-600x402.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/TheDefinitionOfInsanityIsDoingTheSameThingOverAndOverAndExpectingDifferentResults.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Ford\" >Henry Ford<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people\u2019s money.\u201d&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Thatcher\" >Margaret Thatcher<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t allow someone else&#8217;s expectations to run your life.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\" >Mark Twain<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gates\" >Bill Gates<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dewey\" >John Dewey<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf all the economists were laid end to end, they\u2019d never reach a conclusion.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bernard_Shaw\" >George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dewey\" >John Dewey<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf all the economists were laid end to end, they\u2019d never reach a conclusion.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bernard_Shaw\" >George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommon sense is not so common.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voltaire\" >Voltaire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plato\" >Plato<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salvador_Dali\" >Salvador Dali<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.\u201d\u2013 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Edison\" >Thomas Edison<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Edison\" > Thomas Edison<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocialism is a philosophy of failure, creed of ignorance and gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is equal sharing of misery.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winston_Churchill\" >Winston Churchill<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9078\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IdlenessAndProcrastinationAreTheMarksOfFailure.jpg\" ><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9078\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9078\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IdlenessAndProcrastinationAreTheMarksOfFailure-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IdlenessAndProcrastinationAreTheMarksOfFailure-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IdlenessAndProcrastinationAreTheMarksOfFailure-768x515.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IdlenessAndProcrastinationAreTheMarksOfFailure-600x402.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IdlenessAndProcrastinationAreTheMarksOfFailure.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idleness and procrastination are the marks of failure.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cA socialist is somebody who doesn\u2019t have anything and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bernard_Shaw\" >George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer; it\u2019s by making poor people richer.\u201d&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marco_Rubio\" >Marco Rubio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confucius\" >Confucius<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.\u201d\u2013<em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" >Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A strong dollar and a healthy, growing economy will benefit all Americans. A rising tide really does lift all boats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Friedman\" >Milton Friedman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I\u2019m so smart, it\u2019s just that I stay with problems longer.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\" >Albert Einstein<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll digital stuff, from PCs to chips to cell phones to music players, get twice as good every 18 to 24 months\u2013at the same price point. And this digital stuff gets 30% to 40% cheaper every year\u2013at the same performance point.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Moore\" >Gordon Moore<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCut taxes at the margin, on income and capital, and you\u2019ll get more tax revenue, not less. Lower taxes will beckon risk capital out of hiding.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Laffer\" >Arthur Laffer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there&#8217;d be a shortage of sand.&#8221;\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Friedman\" >Milton Friedman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy and all individuals in it thrive when we are allowed to keep more of what we earn.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rand_Paul\" >Rand Paul<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashington is a place where politicians don\u2019t know which way is up and taxes don\u2019t know which way is down.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Orben\" >Robert Orben<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not your salary that makes you rich; it\u2019s your spending habits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocialism: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. If it implodes, it\u2019s someone else\u2019s problem.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Thatcher\" >Margaret Thatcher<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7118\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-7118\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7118\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Those Who Stand For Nothing Fall For Anything.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Those Who Stand For Nothing Fall For Anything.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cJust because something doesn\u2019t do what you planned it to do doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s useless.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_A._Edison\" >Thomas A. Edison<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dale_Carnegie\" >Dale Carnegie<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Drucker\" >Peter Drucker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot print your way to prosperity, but you can pave the way to an economic collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fed printing money is not a sign of economic \u2018strength\u2019 but of tremendous weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.\u201d\u2013 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Arthur_Ward\" >William Arthur Ward<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA penny saved is a penny earned.\u201d \u2014 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" >Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Walton\" >Sam Walton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.\u201d\u2013 <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Ford\" >Henry Ford<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" >Benjamin Franklin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself \u2013 in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.\u201d\u2013<em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Ford\" >Henry Ford<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.\u201d- <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Reagan\" >Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7120\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ALeaderMusthaveAnInviolableRespectForTheConstitutionLaws.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-7120\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7120\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ALeaderMusthaveAnInviolableRespectForTheConstitutionLaws-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A true Leader must have An inviolable respect for The Constitution and its Laws.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ALeaderMusthaveAnInviolableRespectForTheConstitutionLaws-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ALeaderMusthaveAnInviolableRespectForTheConstitutionLaws-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ALeaderMusthaveAnInviolableRespectForTheConstitutionLaws-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.smartvalueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ALeaderMusthaveAnInviolableRespectForTheConstitutionLaws.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A true Leader must have An inviolable respect for The Constitution and its Laws.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Most economic fallacies&#8211;Socialism, Fascism, and Communism; assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Friedman\" >Milton Friedman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody spends somebody else\u2019s money as carefully as he spends his own.&#8221;&#8211;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Friedman\" >Milton Friedman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bernard_Shaw\" >George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.\u201d\u2013<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" >Mitt Romney<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. 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