Robber Baron Quotes

#1. American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

Max Lerner

#2. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Plato

#3. I can get up at 8am and be rested ... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

Jimmy Carter

#4. I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

Chevy Chase

#5. Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Ferdinand Porsche

#6. A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.

Ed Seykota

#7. Sometimes we need to lie to protect our happiness." I

Davonna Juroe

#8. I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#9. Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

Hesiod

#10. Everything seems more bearable since I have talked to you

George Eliot

#11. Life is all about allowing people choices to be who they want. But the majority of people choose to be worthless.

Tarryn Fisher