"Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.."

-- Charles Jaffe

#Business Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Eight Quotes

“You have to press against the pressure thatâ€™s pressing against you!”
“The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness...”
“I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.”
“hindsight is not a strategy.”
“The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.”
“Without freedom there can be no morality.”
“I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.”
“There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.”

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