"It ain't what people don't know that hurts them. It's what they do know that ain't true." -Will Rogers

Freedom

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Obvio...

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell

Para el año que comienza

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Kennedy

Swimming Naked

It's only when the tide goes out that you see who has been swimming naked.

-Warren Buffett

On sale

- I guess there's limits to what money can buy.
- Not many.
- Some things aren't for sale.
- Such as?
- You can't buy people.
- That's naive, Diana. I buy people every day.

Del guión de Indecent Proposal, de la escena en la cual Redford le ofrece 1M a Moore.

Present Actions

"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."

(Esta frase la encontré en un site muy despreciable, del tipo "hágase millonario en 15 días". Pero me pareció buena igual ☺.)

Deal (No)

If a deal is a great deal, they aren’t going to share it with you.
Mark Cuban

Simply Groucho

I sent the club a wire stating, Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Luck

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca

Experience

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Unknown source (to me)

La experiencia es un peine que te dan cuando te quedas pelado.
Oscar 'Ringo' Bonavena

Leg & Tail

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

Ambiciones

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might just find
You get what you need
Rolling Stones

When you see your neighbor carryin' somethin',
Help him with his load,
And don't go mistaking Paradise
For that home across the road.
Bob Dylan

Progress

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw

Bancarrota

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
Ernest Hemmingway, The Sun Also Rises

De tratar y ayudar

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Laborales

"La puerta mejor cerrada es la que queda abierta"

Si Warren Buffett lo dice...

"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."

"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."

"[The perfect amount of money to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing."

Dédalo

"Tú que me has metido en este dédalo, tú me sacarás de él"
Goethe

En la mitología griega, Dédalo (en griego Δαίδαλος Daidalos) era un arquitecto y artesano muy hábil, famoso por haber construido el laberinto de Creta. Es el paradigma del técnico o ingeniero sin escrúpulos que no atiende a fidelidades.

The cry of the poor

"The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you won't know what justice is."
Howard Zinn