?You will get paid. Throughout history, all smart governments made sure the guys with the guns got paid first,? said former Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, assuring that soldiers would still receive salaries in the wake of the sequester.
?Real Estate is the new gold. It is the gold of 2014,? said Jeffrey Gundlach of Doubleline Capital.
?If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people, on a level with dentists, that would be splendid,? said the ground breaking economist, John Maynard Keynes.
?Putin is a man of Russia?s past, haunted by lost empire, lost glory, and lost power. As long has he remains in that office, Russia?s internal problems will not be addressed. Russia?s neighbors will continue to be subject to bullying from Moscow. While the tensions and threats of the cold war will not return, the opportunity to cooperate with the US and Europe will be limited,? said former Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates.
?How can a government go on, publishing all their negotiations with foreign nations, I know not,? said John Adams, America?s second president, lamenting its tendency to leak like a sieve.
The F-22 stealth fighter program has had a long slide from its original proposal of 750 aircraft in 1986, to 187 today. Over 25 years, it has suffered almost as many cuts from as many hands as Julius Caesar had,? said former Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates.
?I suspect no one in the world doubts this administration?s willingness to use force. But we should only use it as a last resort, not as a first step?.We don?t do Pearl Harbors,? said former Secretary of Defense and CIA Chief Robert M. Gates.
?The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary,? said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.?
?You cannot trust bankers to control themselves. They?re like heroin addicts,? said Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman, Charlie Munger.
?The investor in America sits at the bottom of the food chain,? said John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group of index funds.
