Don’t Set a (Goldman Sachs) Fox to Watching Your Chickens

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It is a fine thing to be honest but it is also very important to be right. – Winston Churchill

No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. – Ian E. Wilson

If two friends ask you to be judge in a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend. – Saint Augustine

You don’t set a fox to watching the chickens just because he has a lot of experience in the hen house. – Harry S. Truman

It is only in our decisions that we are important. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear “on the other hand... – Herbert Hoover

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. – Calvin Coolidge

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