"I'm the stuff men are made of!"

-- John Wayne

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“We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information.”
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
“In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies.”

Source : "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.
“If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?”
“Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.”
“Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.”
“Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press
“As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.”

Source : René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.278, Rutgers University Press

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