Sublime

A lo largo de sus viajes, Zemurray había descubierto el banano en las selvas de Centroamérica y, con una intuición feliz del provecho comercial que podía sacar de aquella fruta, comenzó a llevarla en lanchas a Nueva Orleans y otras ciudades norteamericanas. Desde el principio tuvo mucha aceptación. Tanta que la creciente demanda lo llevó a

According to one family friend, after their last child was born in 1932, Rose declared, “No more sex,” and moved into a separate bedroom. But even if Rose had not denied him her favors, Joe would have been a compulsive philanderer. For someone who needed to win, win, win, who could never be content with great success in one arena, who spent his

both my dad and I agreed that one of the best business books in the world is The Godfather. My dad often remarked on how he loved the book and film. One of his favorite lessons in the book was when the Godfather explains to his youngest son Michael that he must continue to think about and go over their plans for the future.

L’un des génies les plus créatifs de l’Histoire en est donc réduit à décorer une horloge contre des bouts de bois, à emprunter de l’argent pour s’acheter de la peinture et à se faire offrir du vin.

Quand j’avais assez de vin je n’allais jamais à la Bibliothèque. Une bibliothèque est un endroit merveilleux quand on n’a rien à boire ou à manger et quand la propriétaire vous cherche et demande ses arriérés – et à la bibliothèque au moins on peut utiliser les toilettes.

The disastrous influence which popular authority may sometimes exercise upon the finances of a State was very clearly seen in some of the democratic republics of antiquity, in which the public treasure was exhausted in order to relieve indigent citizens, or to supply the games and theatrical amusements of the populace.

Their creed was summed up in two quotes: Commodore Vanderbilt’s “Law? What do I care for law? Hain’t I got the power?” and J. P. Morgan’s “I owe the public nothing.”