“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-Winston Churchill
Character is not revealed in easy victories, but in the courage to move forward no matter the setbacks.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain
“Inflation is never an unavoidable natural disaster. It is always the result of the weakness or ignorance of those in charge of monetary policy.”
— Friedrich Hayek
If you want to be successful in life, do these four things:
- Show up on time
- Have a good attitude
- Respect your elders
- Do what you say you’re going to do
What else should be on this list?
When you get older, you look forward to doing fun stuff on the weekends but you end up laying on the couch all weekend either reading a new book or watching Columbo.
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Milton Friedman schools a socialist politician:
“The period of economic freedom was a period in which the differences in income between the rich and the poor were getting smaller.”
“Government is a source of differences in income, of special privilege, of monopoly.”
“We’ve been becoming an over-governed and over-regulated society. We’ve been moving down the road that Friedrich Hayek, in his great book, called The Road to Serfdom.”
— Milton Friedman