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

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.

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

-- Born in Tokyo 1884. As editor of Toyo Keizai Shimp

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

-- Ōkubo Toshimichi

兵無常勢、水無常形。能因敵変化而取勝者、謂之神。

-- 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