“Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.” DreamIndividualPiecesEconomicStyleCostInvestingMarketingCustomersEnormousIdiotFirmRevelationsFundDevotedBrutalPuzzlesOverratedOverheadUnproductive Author:Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
“We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?” PeopleLooksStatesCultureTermCreativityCreativeCostDemandRealisticBrutal Author:Michael Ventura
“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.” WorldQualityChildhoodCostAdultsIllMysteriousSubstanceFedsHeroicBrutalInquisitionAiry Book:The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) Source: The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
“There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.” WayChoicesExistenceSituationCostDespairToughBlindI RealizedCleverSensationsBrutalFalse GodsTough Situations Author:Kim Harrison