"Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits ."

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Source : "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen (p. 224), 1953.

Robert Heilbroner

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“We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.”
“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.”

Source : "Literary and Historical Miscellanies" by George Bancroft, New York: Harper, (p. 430), 1855.
“I can't sit still for 10 minutes.”
“I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.106, Thomas Nelson
“One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other â€” stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.”

Source : Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.134, Gibbs Smith
“I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.”
“The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayersâ€™ money. It is that many agencies perform functions that are not Federal responsibility. The founders delegated to the Government only strictly defined authority in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution. Search the entire Constitution, and you will find no authorization for Congress to subsidize the arts, finance and regulate education or invest tax revenues in energy research.”
“The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.”

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