I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed — for lack of a better word — is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street’ (1987)
“People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they’re cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you’ll ever be!” George Bailey
“The first requisite for a body of practical and progressing thought: recognition of the kind of problem at issue. Lacking this, it has found the shortest distance to a dead end.” Jane Jacobs
“The most enduring tool that fire ever made might just be the human mind.” Thomas Wynn
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.” John Stuart Mill
“Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and richer life.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.