Quotes Previously Used in E-Mail Signature Blocks

Quotes Previously Used in E-Mail Signature Blocks
Brian Gongol

"A gentleman takes as much trouble to discover what is right as lesser men take to discover what will pay."
-- Confucius
"Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is a candy."
-- Charles F. Abbott
"He who wants to be the top dog has to get off of the porch."
"Let us seek out the worries but avoid the worriers. They are haters of liberty and loathers of individuals. They wish to politicize everything. Imagine Bill Clinton conducting your love life for you. And watch out, he may be trying to."
-- PJ O'Rourke, "All the Trouble in the World"
"If anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat."
-- 2 Thessalonians 3:10
"You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8."
-- Bill Krause
"A Declaration of Rights is, by reciprocity, a Declaration of Duties also. Whatever is my right as a man, is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee, as well as to possess."
-- Thomas Paine, "Rights of Man"
"Whenever I'm in the middle of conformity, surrounded by oneness of mind with people oozing concurrence on every side, I get scared. And when I find myself agreeing with everybody, too, I get terrified."
-- P.J. O'Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"
"As I tell my Little Leaguers, of the 22 letters of the alphabet not in the word 'team,' almost 5% of them are in 'I.' Kids hate me."
-- Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show," 2/4/2002
"If one single businessman had had the courage, then, to say that he worked for nothing but his own profit -- and to say it proudly -- he would have saved the world."
-- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
"Archaeologists looked for evidence of UFO's at Roswell in September for a Sci-Fi channel special. In related news, I'm going to spend the next three days eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke to see whether I really do explode."
-- from janegalt.net 11/16/2002
"Smart people don't start many bar fights. But stupid people don't build too many hydrogen bombs."
-- PJ O'Rourke, "Republican Party Reptile"
"Is that any way to have fun? How would your mother feel if she knew you were doing this? She'd cry. She really would. And that's how you know it's fun. Anything that makes your mother cry is fun. Sigmund Freud wrote all about this. It's a well-known fact."
-- PJ O'Rourke, "Republican Party Reptile"
"Everyone in the world isn't just 'different,' as politically correct multiculturalism would have you believe [...] Freedom of religion, representative democracy, religious and ethnic tolerance, equality of the sexes, rule of law, free speech -- these things aren't just different from beheadings and stonings and autocracy -- they're better."
-- Bill Maher, "When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden"
"As Sir Ernest Cassel, the great British financier of the turn of the twentieth century, explained, 'When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased, I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.'"
-- John Steele Gordon, "The Great Game"
"I don't know how my face conveyed that information, or what kind of internal wiring in my grandmother's mind enabled her to accomplish this incredible feat. To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."
-- Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash"
"Unlike an aquarium, this little world [a mini-ecosystem] is a closed ecological system. Light gets in, but nothing else - no food, no water, no nutrients. Everything must be recycled. Just like the Earth."
-- Carl Sagan, "Billions and Billions"
"If you know a thing only qualitatively, you know it no more than vaguely. If you know it quantitatively -- grasping some numerical measure that distinguishes it from an infinite number of other possibilities -- you are beginning to know it deeply."
-- Carl Sagan, "Billions and Billions"
"[T]he revolution has now been supposed to arrive for 150 years, and hasn't even called to say it's stuck in traffic. I just can't get worried."
-- from janegalt.net, 2.21.2003 (http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/003975.html)
"The chairman [Alan Greenspan] knew that profits were absolutely central to business, and he wanted the information mined as much as possible. If there was any indicator of the health of the economy, it was profits."
-- Bob Woodward, "Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom," p. 166
"To John T. McNeill, that most balanced of all church historians, it was precisely 'the breadth and richness of Irish monastic learning, derived from the classical ... authors' that was about to give Ireland its 'unique role in the history of Western culture.'"
-- Thomas Cahill, "How the Irish Saved Civilization," p. 159
"[Inventors like Edison and the Wright Brothers] used an empirical approach when science and scientific method failed, but they also relied on organized information and experimental techniques like those used by experimenting scientists."
-- Thomas P. Hughes, "American Genesis," p. 21
"The Boston Globe has declared the United States to be in the midst of a 'forgiveness boom,' though I hope it never extends to Rocky V or the new Comiskey Park."
-- Cullen Murphy, "Beyond Belief," Atlantic Monthly April 2003
"An associate recalled that the inventor [Elmer Sperry], while seemingly staring absent-mindedly into space, would suddenly grab a pad, hold it in the air at arm's length, and draw on it. When asked about his behavior, he replied, 'It's there! Don't you see it! Just draw a line around what you see!'"
-- Thomas P. Hughes, "American Genesis," p.83
"Traumatized by world war and absolutist political ideologies, Western Europe's political elites have been working for decades to neutralize passion altogether. Europe's intellectuals and politicians have become increasingly effete, bureaucratic, and defeatist..."
-- Robert D. Kaplan, "Euphorias of Hatred," May 2003 Atlantic Monthly, p.45
"From the late nineteenth century until the end of World War II, Americans commonly considered invention, industrial research, and systems of production the sources of goods for the good life and an arsenal of weapons for the great democracy."
-- Thomas P. Hughes, "American Genesis," p.443
"No human rights can exist without property rights. Since material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and are needed to sustain their lives, if the producer does not own the result of his effort, he does not own his life."
-- Ayn Rand, "The Monument Builders" (essay, 1962)
"Nothing so pleases the dishonest man in public life as to have an honest man falsely accused, for the result of innumerable accusations finally is to produce a habit of mind in the public which accepts each accusation as having something true in it and none as being all true; so that, finally, they believe that the honest man is a little crooked and that the crooked man is not much more dishonest than the rest."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, speech given at Kansas City, September 1, 1910
"There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation [...] they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.'"
-- Henry Hazlitt, "Economics in One Lesson"
"Real wages come out of production, not out of government decrees."
-- Henry Hazlitt, "Economics in One Lesson"
"Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction."
-- President Ronald Reagan, qtd. in Edmund Morris, "Dutch"
"While the younger generation, out of that contempt for profit-making fostered by socialist teaching, spurned independent positions which involved risk and flocked in ever increasing numbers into salaried positions which promised security, they demanded a place yielding them the income and power to which in their opinion their training entitled them."
-- Friedrich A. Hayek, "The Road to Serfdom"
"The great danger to the consumer is monopoly -- whether private or governmental [...] Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world."
-- Milton Friedman, "Free to Choose"