Inspiration

Every man has only enough strength to complete those assignments that he is fully convinced are important.°Johann Wolfgang von Goethe║Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence°Robert Frost║The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.°Boutros Boutros-Ghali║In the long run, we’re all dead°It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong°John Maynard Keyes║If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking°George S. Patton║The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason°Marya Mannes║I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious°Albert Einstein║Learning is not so much the filling of a pail as the igniting of a fire.°WB Yeats║Price is what you pay, value is what you get°Ben Graham║Buy a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up°Warren Buffet║Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they’re going to be higher or lower in two or three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide°Peter Lynch║He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest°Dylan Thomas║ A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty°If you are going through Hell, keep going.°Winston Churchill║To live is to maneuver°Whittaker Chambers║They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom°Confucius ║Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get°Dale Carnegie ║

Toasts

Here’s to you and here’s to me. May we never disagree. But if we do, to hell with you. Here’s again to me. -Ireland

Latin

asinus asinum fricat – “the jackass rubs the jackass”

aut viam inveniam aut faciam – “I will find a way, or I will make one” (JIEDDO’s motto!)

bis dat qui cito dat “he gives twice, who gives promptly”

ductus exemplo “Leadership by Example”