Economic Ecosystems

"Are economies ecosystems?
The parallels are striking. The energy driving ecosystems ultimately comes from the sun, while the energy driving economies ultimately comes from another boundless of energy source -- human imagination and innovation. Inspired individuals -- energetic, enthusiastic, and perhaps just a bit sun-struck -- plant their seeds of innovation, creating new products and starting new companies."
-Charles Rousseaux

I Must Use This Day Wisely

"This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
-Psalm 118:24

Persistence

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
-Calvin Coolidge

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Edison

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-attributed to John Adams

"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."

-George Bush, Inaugural Address, 20 January 2005

"Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This is what most successful people actually do anyway."

"It's not so important what you work on, so long as you're not wasting your time. Work on things that interest you and increase your options, and worry later about which you'll take."

-Paul Graham, eminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire

"The current issue of Time calls Social Security the best social program ever. Sorry, they have it wrong. The best social program ever is a system of economic liberty featuring capitalism and free enterprise operating under a system based on the rule of law. No program, private or public, has ever done so much to raise so many from the depths of poverty and despair as has capitalism. When the government steps aside and lets free people react freely with one another, amazing things happen."
-Neal Boortz

"All this has been said before but this can't be said enough: The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore."

-Peggy Noonan, WSJ, Thursday, January 13, 2005

"A delicate balance is necessary between sticking with the things you know and can rely upon, and exploring things which have the potential to be better. Assuming that either of these strategies is the one true way is silly."

-Graydon Hoare