One of the few valuable comparisons.........

 

All intelligent people should think primarily in terms of opportunity cost. When deciding whether to do something compare it with the best opportunity you have.

-Charlie Munger, from here

One can only hope...................

 North America may suffer from some of the world’s poorest political leadership. Yet it seems destined to remain the wealthiest, most dominant place on Earth.

-Joel Kotkin, from here

Consider......................

 You see that I have set out opposing assertions in response to your question and I have touched on quite strong arguments in support of each position. Therefore consider now which seems the more probable to you.

William of Ockham, Dialogus

As Louis L' Amour said......................

 ..........................there is always a faster gun:

12. Don’t worry about what everyone else is doing. There will always be someone getting richer than you in life and the markets. And with the advent of social media, that means people throwing this fact in your face constantly.

This one is not easy but defining what a rich life means to you can help avoid unnecessary envy and regret.

-Ben Carlson, from this list at this post

Embrace.............................

........................................................leakage rather than keepage.

How the Left and Right See Each Other...

If the Left could see themselves through the eyes of neoliberalism, they would see people whose motives might be laudable, but whose methodology is not. They are seen not only as economic illiterates, but as ones with no sense of history, no knowledge, or even concern, with what has happened before. They appear as people whose fixation with theory lifts them above the practicalities of the world as it is. Their proposals are just as impractical, error-strewn and doomed to failure as they were the last time they were tried. Human nature as it is, not as it might be, often thwarts their intent. 

-Dr. Madsen Pirie,  as culled from this essay published on the Adam Smith Institute blog

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