Ludwig Erhard Quotes

#1. A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

#2. Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Yoko Ono

#6. I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives ... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

William J. Clinton

#7. The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

Jeb Bush

#8. Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

Ezra Pound

#9. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

Oliver Goldsmith

#10. Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

Ludwig Erhard

#11. My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. It may be necessary to make compromises in everyday politics, but we cannot compromise with our conscience.

Ludwig Erhard

#13. Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.

Ludwig Erhard