"The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses."

-- Ludwig von Mises

#Country Quotes #Law Quotes #Entrepreneur Quotes

“An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.”
“There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?”
“The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.”
“What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

Source : "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.
“For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.”
“Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.”
“[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen" . . . That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.”
“Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.”

Source : Chris Wooding (2010). “The Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay”, p.218, Hachette UK

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