"The boldest measures are the safest."

-- Horatio Nelson

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

“An error does not have to become a mistake, unless you refuse to correct it.”

— John F. Kennedy

“The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.”

-- Mikhail Gorbachev

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”

-- Warren Buffett

“An alcoholic is someone you dislike who drinks as much as you do.”

-- Dylan Thomas

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

-- Albert Einstein

“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”

-- John Maynard Keynes

“I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.”

-- Jane Austen

“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities."

-- Voltaire

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”

-- Leonardo da Vinci

“Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it.”

-- George Santayana

"Where there is love there is life."
-- Mahatma Ghandi

"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."
-- John Updike
 

"Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you."
-- Winston Churchill
 

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-- Thomas Edison
 

" There can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present."
-- J.K. Galbraith
 

“The bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives.”

— Admiral William Leahy, advising President Truman on the atomic bomb, 1945

“Man will not fly in my lifetime, nor in a thousand years.”

— Orville Wright 1900

“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”

— J.D. Rockefeller