Fortune's Favourites

If you want something done and you think it’s going to be opposed, Marcus Crassus, always go much further than what you want.

“If the world was too tidy it would be hard to make money.”
“Harder to hide it, you mean,”

All what stops most people starting, Caesar, is the fear of getting caught.

imagination was no substitute for reality

No experience is negative, Gnaeus Pompeius, provided it leads to eventual success.

truth will out at exactly the worst moment

you cannot take away from the common people a privilege that has been with them long enough for them to assume it is a right!

love always means different things to different people

I believe money must be passed on. Otherwise it stagnates. So does the economy.

It’s one thing never to question orders, quite another not to ask what it’s all about.