"There are two levers to set a man in motion, fear and self-interest." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 French General and Emporer "Corporation, n., An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibililty." ~ Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914 - American columnist and author - The Devil's Dictionary 1906 "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get" ~ Warren Buffet 1930- American Investment Entrepreneur "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Irish orator, philosopher, politician "The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery" ~Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965 British Prime Minister and writer "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value" ~ Arthur C. Clarke 1917- British Science Fiction Writer "In God we Trust - all others bring data." ~ Dr. W Edwards Deming 1900-1993 - American Statistician "Its not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." ~Roy Disney - Nephew of Walt Disney "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants" "...the meaning of pleasure... the absence of pain in the body and trouble in the soul.; It is sober reasoning searching out every choice .. and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest disturbances take possession of the soul." ~ Epicurus 341 B.C. -270 BC Ancient Greek philosopher "Good Education teaches in the shortest possible way what one should aim for and what one should try to avoid... Equcation will lead Nature and.. practise will complete education." ~ Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536 Dutch renaissance scholar, theologian and humanist "After all, everybody only hears what he understands" ~Johann Wolfgany von Goethe 1749-1832 German poet and philosopher "Where the legal system fails, violence begins." ~ Hugo de Groot 1583-1645 Dutch brilliant lawyer and historian in 'De jure belli ac pacis' (about the law of war and peace), still the basis of modern international law (1625) "A firm's income statement is likened to a bikini - what it reveals is interesting, what it conceals is vital." ~ Bruton G. Malkiel in A Random walk down Wall street. "Society is produced by our wants and Government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices" ~Thomas Paine 1737-1809 Angle-American, author in "Common Sense" (1791) "People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got; everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them" ~G.B. Shaw 1856-1950 Irish critic and poet "