American - Public | November 27, 1927 - June 3, 2000
A tax cut would most certainly be my first choice rather than an increase in federal spending. Those who advocate that fail to see that spending not only continues in subsequent years, but it grows and grows.
William E. Simon
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Dad was high society, a big man in town, a 'Who's Who' in New jersey.
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My father's card-playing buddies treated me as a plain, ordinary, commonplace kid destined for mediocrity - or less. I suppose they expected that I would spend my life as a clerk of some sort.
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Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.
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By the mid-1950s, the young bond traders on the Street were becoming more and more of a fraternity. We organized informal luncheons every Thursday in an effort to educate financial writers, who knew next to nothing about municipal bonds.
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Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.
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I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.
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Pop taught me respect for my fellow man and reverence for my God. He taught me the importance of family and religion.
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While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate.
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I found that I not only tolerated taking risks, I loved it.
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There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, or capitalist, system.
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It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.
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