“Even the most well-meaninggovernment policies have unintended consequences that have harmedthe economy. If government policies were today held accountable the wayprivate businesses are, the scoreboard would say government is failingto help people...and this is a fact.”

“There is a major difference between theoretical knowledge andexperiential knowledge. Academics think they know how the economyshould work; successful business owners know how the economy doeswork. They have been there and done it. Our government should beturning to those who have experiential knowledge when it comes tosolving our fiscal problems. They would realize that many of theircurrent policies may sound good but don’t work in the real worldand must be abandoned. They would spend less and live within theirmeans. They would be promoting the creation of more entrepreneursand business owners, instead of hiring more bureaucrats, consultingmore academics, and enlisting more lawyers to harass and prosecutethe true wealth creators of this nation.”

“Since the dawn of the twentieth century, we have been told thatthe federal government has the answers to solve all of society’s problems.We have been promised, by supposedly serious men who havesworn an oath before God and man, that if we just give Washington,D.C., more of our money and more of our personal freedom, theproblems of poverty, illiteracy, racism, unemployment, crime, andcorruption will all be solved. Today, each and every one of theseproblems is worse than it has ever been. The federal government andits blood-sucking bureaucracies do not have a solution to the problem,they are the problem.”

“If more people learned to understand their real business interests correctly and to act accordingly, we would have a much better world.”

“We were born a nation of entrepreneurs. That is why so manypeople came to this country from so many different nations and culturesaround the globe. The entrepreneur sees the opportunity, takesaction, and successfully learns from the experience. They go on tocreate wealth. They become part of that demographic that is called“the rich.” They, not the government, drive the economy and createjobs. Only a mind with an envious, greedy perspective would considerpunitively taxing the rich as a viable solution to our fiscal miasma.This is a solution springing from the fount of ignorance and deemedwise only by fools.”

“I do not believe in the power of brand names or in emulatingany of the brand name investors out there. It is a fact that all—ifnot at least most—of the biggest names in American finance andindustry out there today have proven after the 2008 crisis to be someof the most incompetent people there are. Starting with the untouchableGoldman Sachs, who was bailed out by over $5 billion fromWarren Buffett, to AIG and Citibank, who were bailed out by thehundreds of billions of dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program(TARP), having a name and a history does not make you the brightestand the best. All it takes is one nincompoop with a huge ego or aboard of directors who think they are smarter than everyone else todestroy what has taken generations to build.”

“Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.”