When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

In the long run we are all dead.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment would result in the demolition of society.

-- Born 1886

I came, I saw, I conquered.

-- Julius Caesar

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

-- Gilles Villeneuve

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

-- Born in Scotland in 1723, Adam Smith

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.

-- Born around 1480 in Portugal

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

-- Born in Genoa in 1451