SWCAMBORNE

“A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.”

Frank Rizzo

Mayor of Philadelphia

1920-1991

“Flattery is the lubricating oil of life.”

from  Catherine the Great

by Robert Massie

“Salve lucrum! Lucrum gaudium!”

“Hail profit! Profit is joy!”

Roman saying discovered at Pompeii

From Pompeii

a novel by Robert Harris

“I do most of my thinking in the morning.

At my age I run out of brain long before I run out of day.”

Simon Burrow

“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

Oscar Wilde

1856 – 1900

“The scientific method is nothing more than a series of rules

to keep us from lying to each other.”

Ken Norris

‎“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation,

the four pillars of our prosperity, are most thriving

when left most free to individual enterprise.”

President Thomas Jefferson

“Some things are so stupid, only

an intellectual could believe them.” 

George Orwell

American Author

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience.  Take the experience first, the cash will come later.”

Harold Geneen

CEO of ITT Corp. and author of

Managing

(one of the best management books I have ever read)

“Bankers are bullfrogs;

lawyers are lizards.”

Paul Theroux

The London Embassy