Words matter. These are the best William E. Simon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I found that I not only tolerated taking risks, I loved it.
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
By the mid-1950s, the young bond traders on the Street were becoming more and more of a fraternity. We organized informal luncheons every Thursday in an effort to educate financial writers, who knew next to nothing about municipal bonds.
While Pop lived his life in comfort, he was always generous to the less fortunate.
My father’s card-playing buddies treated me as a plain, ordinary, commonplace kid destined for mediocrity – or less. I suppose they expected that I would spend my life as a clerk of some sort.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.
At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and only rarely displayed in school. Years later, I would come to appreciate, abstractly, the importance of productive activity to the mind and soul of both an individual and a nation.
Dad was high society, a big man in town, a ‘Who’s Who’ in New jersey.
The very nature of the government, and the direction it’s been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.
It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.
I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
Infinitely more important than sharing one’s material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves – our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.
Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.
Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.
Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn’t changed, and it isn’t going to change for a long time.
There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, or capitalist, system.
We only have politicians who are concerned with being reelected.
