Gemma

“«Al mattino, quando non hai voglia di alzarti, ti sia presente questo pensiero: mi sveglio per compiere il mio mestiere di uomo». Cosí scrive l’imperatore Marco Aurelio (Pensieri, V, 1)”
― Umberto Veronesi, Il mestiere di uomo

“The commodity traders are arbitragers par excellence, trying to exploit a series of differences in prices. Because they’re doing deals to buy and to sell all the time, they are often indifferent to whether commodity prices overall go up or down. What matters to them is the price disparity – between different locations, different qualities or forms of a product, and different delivery dates. By exploiting these price differences, they help to make markets more efficient, directing resources to their highest value uses in response to price signals. They are, in the words of one academic, the visible manifestation of Adam Smith’s invisible hand.”
― Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

“Success comes only when you act on what you know and believe. What your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve!”
― Napoleon Hill, Law of Success: The Original Unedited Edition

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin