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“Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.”
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“There is no room at all for independent enterprise under any variety of State Socialism. Prices are to be regulated authoritatively; authority is to fix what is to be produced, and how, and in what quantities. There is to be no speculation, no 'excessive' profit, no loss. There is to be no innovation unless it be decreed by authority. The official is to direct and supervise everything.”
― The Theory of Money and Credit
― The Theory of Money and Credit
“It is true that under the wages system the individual is not free to choose permanent unemployment. But no other imaginable social system could grant him a right to unlimited leisure. That man cannot avoid submitting to the disutility of labor is not an outgrowth of any social institution. It is an inescapable natural condition of human life and conduct.”
― Human Action: Scholar's Edition
― Human Action: Scholar's Edition
“It's not that the customer is always right, it's that the customer is paying to be wrong.”
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“If success were easy, everybody would do it. Because it’s not, you have the opportunity to distinguish yourself by solving problems. The more problems you solve, the more success you’ll have in life.
Then, once you’re successful, you won’t have any more problems, right? Wrong. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have a better class of problems.”
― 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
Then, once you’re successful, you won’t have any more problems, right? Wrong. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have a better class of problems.”
― 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
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This reading group is for lovers of classic Hollywood. We discuss the films, crews, actors, designers, and books that cover the Golden Age of Tinsel ...more
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