Financial crises require governments.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.
War is sweet to them that know it not.
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.
Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.
I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done. . . and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.