Ed Mayo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

  • If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

  • Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

  • We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

  • Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?

  • I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

  • I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

  • Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

  • There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

  • TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.