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I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.


Arthur Levitt

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ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivat...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio...
ARTHUR LAFFER Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo...
ARTHUR SMITH So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilitie...
ARTHUR ROCK A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up witho...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and ...
ARTHUR WINTER Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shal...
ARTHUR SHOPENHAUER The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
ARTHUR BAER If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs
ARTHUR BAER If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
ARTHUR BAER In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they tea...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG