Age Quote by Smedley Butler

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without…

— Stuart Symington

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States,…

— John Boyd Orr

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

— Christie Hefner

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such…

— Alexander Hamilton

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your…

— Anonymous

Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.

— Walter Schloss

“In Wisconsin in 1856, the LaCrosse and Milwaukee Railroad got a million acres free by distributing about $900,000 in stocks and bonds to fifty-nine…

— Howard Zinn

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

— William O'Neil

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no…

— Mitch McConnell

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to…

— Will Rogers

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do…

— Smedley Butler

“Two hundred and fifty American marines and soldiers were killed, and 1,554 wounded.75 Another 458 ARVN soldiers were killed and an estimated 2,700 wounded.…

— Mark Bowden