#flat

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ↗

— Roger Babson

#flat #look #our #up #way

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#flatters #fool #himself #man #wise

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. ↗

— Richard Steele

#below #cannot #character #envies #except

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. ↗

— Abba Eban

#declaring #earth #flat #flattened #had

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings. ↗

— Robert Orben

#inflation #savings #your

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. ↗

— Peyton Manning

#form #great #imitation #obviously

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free