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John Stossel Quotes

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 6, 1947

Topics

Alone You Country Borders Leave

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.

Jeremy Grantham

Time People Brain Believe Want True

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

Anna Deavere Smith

Work Hard Work Money Optimism Think

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Life Money Intelligence View My Life

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.

Future Technology History Together

Hunger's a great spur.

Great Hunger Spur

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

Chaos Kitchen Creation Evidence

It was kind of fun being the headliners.

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

Writing Start Thought Die Down Head

Harvey and I grew up in Queens, N.Y. My brother and I shared a room for 18 years until we went away to college. When we were kids, after our father said, 'Lights out,' he also exclaimed, 'No more talking. Time for sleep.' But we'd stay up late, arguing over statistics, who the best center fielder was - Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle.

Father Time Best Sleep Brother Late

The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.

Antony Johnston

Face Problem Nonsense Almost Piracy

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Change Value Results Act Valued Our

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

Life Hate Me Writing End Fat

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