Merchant

🇺🇸Donald Trump

Politics

b. 1945

"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."

🇺🇸Don Soderquist

Music

1934–2016

"A bottom line principle of business—and life—is, to do what is right, even when no one else is looking. Likewise, we ought to do the right thing even if others around us seem to be backwards."

🇩🇪Rudolf Hess

Politics

1894–1987

"The party is Hitler, Hitler is Germany, and Germany is Hitler! Sieg heil!"

🇬🇧Olaudah Equiano

Military

1745–1797

"I was named Olaudah, which, in our language, signifies vicissitude or fortune also, one favoured, and having a loud voice and well spoken."

🇫🇷Aga Khan IV

Religion

1936–2025

"A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours."

🇺🇸Steve Ballmer

Business

b. 1956

"Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."

🇺🇸Benedict Arnold

Military

1741–1801

"We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter."

🇺🇸John Pierpont

Politics

1785–1866

"The Antislavery Poems of John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project"

🇫🇷Heinrich Heine

Literature

Romanticism

1860–1931

"If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses."

🇬🇧Jimmy Wales

Business

b. 1966

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."

Ibn Battuta

Literature

1304–1368

"“Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee."

🇬🇧John Galt (novelist)

Politics

1779–1839

"The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle."

"Product quality can then be defined as: The composite product characteristics of engineering and manufacturing that determine the degree to which the product, in use, will meet the expectations of the customer."

🇺🇸Rex Tillerson

Politics

b. 1952

"​”The places I come from, we don’t deal with that kind of petty nonsense... I’m just not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration​."

🇺🇸Dick Cheney

Politics

1941–2025

"Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose."

"The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer."

🇺🇸Andy Warhol

Art

pop art

1928–1987

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

🇺🇸Stephen Wolfram

Science

b. 1959

"cience has become used to... using the little... pockets of computational reducibility to be able to find those cases where you can jump ahead."