What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?

BERTOLT BRECHT, DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER

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“Why doth treason never prosper? For shouldst thou fail, thou must hang. And if it doth succeed, why, ’twas never treason!”

Better to labor as a wage slave than as a beast of burden to a loan shark.

“A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit to do the unnecessary.”

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and quietly strangled

A poem on business

Good fortune?The fact is The more that you practice, The harder you sweat, The luckier you get. Ideas? We’ve had ’em Since Eve deceived Adam, But take it from me Execution’s the key. The money? Just pester A likely investor. To get what you need You toady to greed. The talent? Go sign it. But …

Not Fade Away

The book: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Fade-Away-Short-Lived/dp/006073731X High Notes: Our tension in life comes from the tensions between the past present and future. Regret comes from poisoned minutes, spent on the wrong thing. At the same time, the present barely exists except as a launch pad for the future. You've got to plan. You've got to worry. To balance this …