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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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