"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money.  I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."

-- Robert Bosch

“Love and cooking require that you take great risks.”

-- The Dalai Lama

“I consider myself not so much the greatest of modern artists, but the only one.”

-- Salvador Dali

“I don’t want to be the best at doing something. I want to be the only one doing it.”

-- Jerry Garcia

“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”

-- Roger Bacon

“One of the rules of poker – and of the bond markets, and of life – is that if you don’t know who the sucker is, it’s you.”

-- Mitch Feierstein, Planet Ponzi

“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

-- Warren Buffett

“You miss one hundred per cent of the shots you don’t take.”

-- Wayne Gretsky

 “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

-- John Maynard Keynes

“Fame simply means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”

-- Erica Jong

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

-- Flannery O'Connor

“Always examine the dice.”

-- Groucho Marx

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

-- Earnest Hemingway

“It’s true that hard work never killed anyone, but I figure why take the chance?”

-- Ronald Reagan

"Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy."

-- Warren Buffett

"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"

T.S. Eliot

"Common sense teaches that booksellers should not speculate in hops, or bankers in turpentine; that railways should not be promoted by maiden ladies, or canals by beneficed clergymen . . . in the name of common sense, let there be common sense."

-- Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street

"Business today consists in persuading crowds."

-- T.S. Eliot