The Savage Truth

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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In order to get to the long run one has to pass through the short run first.
Dennis Gartman in The Gartman Letter

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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander Tytler

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When they’re yellin’, you should be sellin’ and when they’re cryin’, you should be buyin.’

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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), The Brothers Karamazov

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Time is Money!

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There is nothing wrong with being wrong, but there is much wrong with staying wrong, and there is even more wrong with getting “wrong-er.
Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter on trading the markets!

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962)

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)

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The cure for high prices, is high prices. And the cure for low prices is low prices!

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The only thing worse than having a big economic problem is Congress deciding it has the answer!

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(Shakespeare describing pension promises and 40lk stock investments -- nearly 500 years ago!) Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

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Intelligence is inversely proportional to the numer of people in the room.
B. Cohen

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It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20:35

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Love for the poor can never be allowed and evolve into hate for the rich.
Arthur B. Laffer, The Bible

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A government big enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

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The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
Winston Churchill

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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Alexander Frasier Tyler, in an essay titled Cycles of Democracy written in 1770

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To maintain a democracy of effort requires a vast amount of patience in dealing with differing methods, a vast amount of humility. But out of the confusion of many voices rises an understanding of dominant public need. Then political leadership can voice common ideals, and aid in their realization.

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The Chicken Money Motto: I’m not so concerned about the return ON my money, as I am about the return OF my money.

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Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made.

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Sometimes those who have the farthest to go, go the farthest!
Harry F.

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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber
and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

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Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday!

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Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)

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It’s not who’s right, but who’s left, that counts in the end!

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Never put off until tomorrow what should be done today!

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be. This is the moment for “chicken money”!

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What goes around, comes around.

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Leverage is a two-edged sword.

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The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.

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Never sell into a selling panic!

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The self is not something ready-made, but something in
continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey (1859 - 1952)

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

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Do Unto Others as You Would Have them Do Unto You -- the best Truth of all!
The Bible

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From the Sea

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No man loves life like him that’s growing old.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

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Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)