Quote Of The Day

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

--John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

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"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."

--Jerome K. Jerome,English author

This one really speaks to me. Just ask any of my editors.

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W.C. Varones Blog: Debate-watching thoughts

"I'd rather they run McCain's EKG on that ticker..."

-- Charlie McDanger, WC Varones' unindicted co-conspirator

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"The best part about using contractors is that you still end up doing all the work anyway but at least you're paying more."

- An engineer I know who would prefer to remain anonymous

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"This is one of those regulatory questions that is actually quite straightforward: How can you short if you don't own the shares?"

-- The Deal.com's Robert Teitelman

From The Deal.com, hat tip to Dealbreaker.com

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"Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without hell"

--Warren Buffet

*I know I'm probably way late to the party, but I hadn't read that until recently.

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It bears repeating:

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

--Rob Gerhardt

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"Unfortunately a lot of economic data is backward looking.''

- Yogi Berra Thomas J. Lee, chief U.S. equity strategist at JPMorgan.

from Bloomberg, hat tip to Dealbreaker.com

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“This is the best time [for shipping] since the Vikings.”

-- Norwegian Shipping Magnate John Fredriksen

Hat tip to Paul Kedrosky for the original FT link.

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Quote Of The Week

"There is no equity in airlines. If one rallies, short it and go to the beach."

-- Carl Icahn

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Inspirational Quote Of The Day

1. Pillage, then burn.

-- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates

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Motivational Quote of the Day

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Almost Worthy of Quote of the Day

The wise Paul Kedrosky has a bit of fun with a blurb from a well-known investment newsletter today.

Paul Kedrosky: Project: Deciphering Financial Newsletter Speak

Cyclically, 2008 is a pivotal year. The beginning of the year will look much different than the end. Looking back on 2008 people will be astonished by how much perceptions shifted and change occurred. Friends will be enemies and enemies will be friends. Amid all of this social turmoil there will be an ever increasing number of fads.

Aside from reinforcing that famous saw about Wall Street that "nobody knows nothing," that passage makes me wonder which field has more meaningless but impressive sounding gibberish, investing newsletters or post modern literary criticism.

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"Wow, you hate your job? Did you know that there's a support group for that? Yeah, it's called everyone. We meet every night at the bar!"

-- Drew Carey

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Other Quote of the Day

"Great, Microsoft is involved in Facebook. Does that mean it will stop working properly?"

-anonymous commenter on Marketnews.ca

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Regarding the ongoing, interminable Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD format war:

"If anyone is winning in this format war, it's the media who
gets to talk about it."

- An industry insider who wishes to remain unnamed.

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Dealbreaker's Joe Wiesenthal knocks it out of the park with this one:

Microsoft Updates Its iPod Competitor (NYT)

Ah, that explains the mile-long lines we saw outside of the Microsoft store the other day.

Sometimes sarcasm is a stilleto. Sometimes it's an axe.

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"If you want to do something, you will find a
way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."-- Anonymous

*for me, that's an aphorism that cuts both ways.

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"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the
price to make them come true."

-- Leon J. Suenes,writer

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From the excellent music blog No Rock and Roll Fun.com

Kelly Rowland's Ghetto Heaven

Kelly Rowland has recorded a song with Snoop Dogg, and, for her, that's as good as growing up in the Bronx, as the fabulously rich w:

I feel like everybody has some sort of element of ghetto in them. Think about it. Right? Wouldn't you say so? And everyone knows what the ghetto is.

Well, yes. But I also know what the North Atlantic Ridge is, Kelly, but that doesn't give me the right to go round claiming to be a blue whale.

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