Creating Opportunities
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Sir Francis Bacon
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
— George Bernard Shaw
— John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain