Duff McDonald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

  • LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

  • The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

  • The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

  • I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.

  • Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

  • The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

  • The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks.

  • I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  • Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.