"The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership."

-- Louis O. Kelso

#Needs Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Investing Quotes

“WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.”

Source : 'England's Heroical Epistles' (1597) 'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine' l. 123
“It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.”
“What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.”

Source : "Anselm Kiefer's tragic works carry traces of humor" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2012.
“King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.”
“A man has to BE something; he has to matter.”
“I've noticed that men get unhappy about women talking about something other than men, or love, or babies.”
“I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write. Even though I write mostly for kids, I'm not out to teach a moral lesson or present a guidebook for life. My primary goal as a writer is to create fun, entertaining books that present interesting ideas and themes, so kids can have a break from the stresses of their lives. I got a fan letter once from a girl who said one of my books made her feel good about herself, and if there's anything I'm reaching for, it's that.”

Source : Source: comicsbulletin.com
“I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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