The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
BEN STEINWe got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
MARCUS GARVEY -
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESEL -
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN -
Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
JIMMY PAGE -
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN -
I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
GEORGE MICHAEL -
Unleash the power within. Cultivate your land with fields of gold. A hidden power you never knew, Watch the greatness unfold.
GERARD GLEESON -
People don’t know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.
BARRY SWITZER -
War is romantic only to those who are far away from the sounds and turmoil of battle.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS -
It’s fun leading this offense. I don’t think we’ve hit our peak.
BRETT FAVRE -
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
WARREN BUFFETT -
Sometimes the sun shies away, from how the ocean slays, and the ocean keeps its promise, to slay until it sees the sunrays!
DEEPALI SINGHVI -
The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.
CRISTIANO RONALDO -
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON