“And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.” TwoCountryPoorMillionsCasesFiveFourIndustryMediumsFrancePeasantsBelgiumSwitzerlandHollandScandinaviansScandinavia Author:Herman Gorter
“I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.” YearsMotherPoorFourGrewGrew UpRaised Author:Robert Reich
“It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?” LittlesPersonsLinesPoorPovertyFourAmountEconomicsRaisesPopulationCorruptionSpendingBillionsWelfareOfficialsPercentagesAnnuals Author:Robert Higgs
“My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.” ThreePoorFourFeetLet MeInchesHeels Author:Gillian Jacobs
“The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.” PeopleWayGivingYearsTwoWholeTodayTogetherGuyValuesThreePoorFourProductsTerriblePercentBasesManagementInvestmentInvestingFundMutualPercentagesLike SomethingBuyersMoney ManagementGeneral PublicFunny BusinessBrokersMutual FundInvestment Management Author:John C. Bogle
“If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.” IfsFeelsYearsMaySeemsPainOrderSocialPoorFourResponsePainfulListsLocalsCardsTherapyFiftyInjuryBottlesFeel BetterGeneticsTabletsGenericQuaintOsteoporosisTylenolCodeine Author:Marni Jackson
“They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.” ShouldMadeTwoGrowsPoorRichFourThousandShould HaveTwentiesDollarsProfitConservatismBullsBull Markets Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore