Prospectus Quotes

#1. Only someone who has Asperger's would read a subprime mortgage bond prospectus,

Michael Lewis

#2. Any time anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you adopt "Munger's Rule". However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead-and you will miss a lot of unhappy experiences.

Charlie Munger

#3. Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'

Terry Teachout

#4. It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.

George Galloway

#5. George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

Arthur Levitt Jr

#6. Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. Sony's "Founding Prospectus," handwritten by Ibuka in 1946, described "a stable workplace where engineers could work to their hearts' content in full consciousness of their joy in technology.

Anonymous

#9. I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.

Lauren Willig

#10. Hope is an investment that never fails the investor; don't read the Red Herring prospectus before investing in hope.

Mayank S. Sengar

#11. Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

Anthony Daniels

#12. The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. This may have something to do with a tendency to discount the cost or quality advantages of quasi-monopolist combination that is at present as pronounced as was the exaggeration of them in the typical prospectus or announcement of sponsors of such combinations.]

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#14. Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived - thru habit and not thru merit.

Letitia Baldrige

#15. Okay, consider this. Say you're going to go on a long journey with someone by car. And the two of you will take turns driving. Which type of person would you choose? One who's a good driver, but inattentive, or an attentive person who's not such a good driver?

Haruki Murakami

#16. You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.

Jennifer Egan

#17. What's wrong? Please, Creed, tell me"-Annika

"Just take me to bed, baby. Please just fuck me and don't ask me any more questions tonight."

~Creed

Sydney Croft

#18. To love someone means you have something in life to fight for, something to live for - I guess you wouldn't know, you've never felt love, so you can't possibly understand.

J.A. Redmerski

#19. I did not agree..to having my article censored ... The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not find in it the paper I read ... Scientists as a group are no more, and no less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people are.

John Yudkin

#20. If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

Dan Wells

#21. The southpaw also struck out 53 percent of the batters he faced. That's the highest single-season percentage in history,

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#22. If Jones magically converted 50 outs a year into walks, presto: now he's Ken Griffey, Jr.

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#23. It's time to admit that Chapman, who's still only 27, is simply playing a different game than everyone else.

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#24. Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

Andrew Jackson

#25. Betemit's positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different question.

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