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

In the long run we are all dead.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

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

Truth always changes with changes in human life. It is never eternal and immutable.

-- Tanzan Ishibashi

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- Ōkubo Toshimichi

In war there is no constant posture, as water has no constant form. He who can win by adapting to the enemy's changes may be called divine.

-- Sun Tzu

God and my right.

-- Richard I of England

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

-- Napoleon

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

-- Erwin Rommel