The Sovereign Individual by Davidson and Rees-Mogg - Quotations

The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. 1997.


Frederick C. Lane
… one of the most distinctive characteristics of governments is their attempt to create law and order by using force themselves and by controlling through various means the use of force by others.

Chinese Proverb
Of all the thirty-six ways to get out of trouble, the best way is – leave.

Alan Greenspan
The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

Christopher Lasch
Ambitious people understand, then, that a migratory way of life is the price of getting ahead.

Writing, Wealth, Go For It, Age Quotations

WRITING
Dorothy Parker
If you’re going to write, don’t pretend to write down. It’s going to be the best thing you can do, and it’s the fact that it’s the best you can do that kills you.

WEALTH
John Wicker
Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

GO FOR IT
Jonathan Winters
I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

AGE
Oscar Wilde
To get back one’s youth, one merely has to repeat one’s follies.

Quotes from The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Work Week:Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.
Timothy Ferriss. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-35313-9

Jean Cocteau
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Paul Fussel
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

William Gibson
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.

Gratitude, Wealth, Stagnation, Men Quotations

GRATITUDE
Earl Nightingale
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

WEALTH
E. James Rohn
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

STAGNATION
Larry Winget
… if your life sucks it is because you suck.

MEN
Rebecca West
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Ideas, Wealth, Goals, Women

IDEAS
Nicolas Malebranche
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

WEALTH
J.S. Morrill
Like liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.

GOALS
Benjamin E. Mays
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

WOMEN
Karl Kraus
Women’s Rights are men’s duties.

Metaphysics, Wealth, Regret, Men

METAPHYSICS

Charles W. Ferguson
The essence of tragedy is to know the end.

WEALTH

Anatole France
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

REGRET

Brendan Francis
Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne in upon them.

MEN

Edgar Watson Howe
It isn’t the sissy men who help women most, but the rough, capable ones who can be caught and trained.