Finance

🇺🇸Harry Browne

Politics

1933–2006

"You have so much control over your life, it would be a shame to throw it away. But you do just that if you hope to get what you want by invoking your rights or by trying to change others."

🇵🇱Jan Toporowski

Economics

b. 1950

"Thus the only practical conclusion that can be drawn under present circumstances is of the need for a financial crash."

"Demonstration election: A circus held in a client state to assure the population of the home country that their intrusion is well received. The results are guaranteed by an adequate supply of bullets well in advance."

"I want to believe that I can be a main character, I can be a leading character in my life, that I can have a happily ever after, that I can find true love, and I can get married, and conquer, and be happy…"

🇬🇧Rishi Sunak

Politics

b. 1980

"You are highly accountable. That's what I like about it. You are responsible for your investments and either they're good or they're bad ... There are nor many other people to blame, there's nowhere to hide."

🇺🇸J. Doyne Farmer

Science

b. 1952

"Our goal is to build a broad-based model of key components of the economy: households, firms, banks and government... The failure to embrace things like simulation has inhibited progress in economics."

🇺🇸J. P. Morgan

Business

1837–1913

"The first thing is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business."

"Most organisations firms are simply legal fictions which serve as a nexus for a set of contracting relationships among individuals."

🇺🇸David Rockefeller

Business

1915–2017

"Born to be Mild. a review of Memoirs in The New York Times"

🇺🇸Jim Rogers

Business

b. 1942

"If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that’s not capitalism, that’s socialism for the rich"