Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. - Ayn Rand

I keep trying to hire a set of hands, and they keep coming with heads and bodies attached. - Henry Ford

An obligatory mindset is the formula for mediocrity. - James G. Clawson

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

The least of learning is done in the classrooms. - Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. - Stephen Swid

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -William Pitt (1759-1806)

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

In the short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine. - Ben Graham

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. - J. Paul Getty

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. - Henry Ford

Money is human happiness in the abstract: He, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson