Yogi Berra In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
Ariely, Dan (2009-06-06). Predictably Irrational I don’t want to live the life of a Boxster,” he told the New York Times, “because when you get a Boxster you wish you had a 911, and you know what people who have 911s wish they had? They wish they had a Ferrari.”
Ariely, Dan (2009-06-06). Predictably Irrational As H. L. Mencken, the twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker noted, a man’s satisfaction with his salary depends on (are you ready for this?) whether he makes more than his wife’s sister’s husband. Why the wife’s sister’s husband? Because (and I have a feeling that Mencken’s wife …
Writer Laurence Peter An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.”
– Jim Rickards One of my favorite quotes on the topic of gold is attributed to Lord Nathan Rothschild, a legendary 19th-century banker and gold broker to the Bank of England. He said, “I only know of two men who really understand the true value of gold — an obscure clerk in the basement vault …
French statesman Tallerand on America: [A country] with thirty-two religions and only one dish to eat.’