"When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing."

-- Bernard Baruch

#Boys Quotes #Belief Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.”
“Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.”
“I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.”

Source : "Staying On Top: Carrot Top". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. March 11, 2004.
“We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.”
“The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.”
“There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.”
“Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?”

Source : "Takes: Sheldon Adelson's switch" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2012.

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