Dec 19, 2007

Albert Lord unplugged

It’s (margin calls) embarrassing and troublesome to me personally, the bank sold me out. It is not a sign of my disillusionment with the company. In fact, the exact reverse is the case.

Steve (McGarry, Managing Director of Investor Relations), let's go, there's no questions, let's get the f*ck outta here.

~ Albert Lord, CEO Sallie Mae, conference call discussing future of Sallie Mae, December 19, 2007

Robert Taft on foreign policy

An unwise and overambitious foreign policy, and particularly the effort to do more than we are able to do, is the one thing which might in the end destroy our armies and prove a real threat to the liberty of the people of the United States...

~ Senator Robert Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans (1951)

Gandhi on sin

Hate the Sin; Love the Sinner.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mikhail Turovsky on time

When your legs get weaker time starts running faster.

~ Mikhail Turovsky

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Mark Twain on skepticism

Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.

~ Mark Twain

Benjamin Franklin on lost time

Lost time is never found again.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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Husayn ibn Ali on dignity

Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation.

~ Husayn ibn Ali

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