Smithian Growth Quotes

#1. It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

George Washington

#2. The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Johannes Kepler

#3. I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

Seth Godin

#4. I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

Pauline Kael

#5. And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

Fred Thompson

#6. However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Tryon Edwards

#8. We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives and we alone are responsible for them.

Ilona Andrews

#9. At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

Chris Noth

#10. Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold."
Question: What's the probability they will kiss?

Jenny Downham

#11. If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

William O'Neil