JFK on Thomas Jefferson

John F. Kennedy famously commented, addressing a group of Nobel laureates at the White House, that it was, "The most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

From the film The Ides of March

Paul Zara in The Ides Of March:

"I value TRUST over SKILL, ... and in politics, in f... politics, the only currency that counts is LOYALTY, and without it you are nothing!" Words spoken by Paul Zara, Senior Campaign Manager, to Stephen Meyers upon firing him from the job of campaign manager from the Mike Morris U.S. presidential campaign in the race for the White House. Taken from the award winning film, THE IDES OF MARCH.

Sam Walton opening the 2nd Wal-Mart

In 1962 Sam Walton went from Rogers, Arkansas, where he had opened his first Wal-Mart store, to the Ben Franklin Headquarters in Chicago; he went there with an idea, the idea of taking a discount store and putting it in small towns in rural America, thus he asked the high personnel of Ben Franklin's to sell him merchandise at a discount rate so that he and them could together serve the rural communities with discount stores (Wal-Mart's); however, after a morning of discussions, they refused to sell him merchanidse at a discount rate.

Well, undeterred, he continued to pursue his vision, and two years later, in 1964, at age 46, he opened his 2nd Wal-Mart store in Harrison, Arkansas; however, it was anything but a smooth opening. David Glass, president of a drug retail chain explained what he saw the day it opened, "I saw Sam bought a couple of truck-loads of watermelons and he had stacked them across the front of the store, and he had donkey rides for the kids out in the parking lot; but what he didn't anticipate was that the temperature would rise to 110 degrees Farenheit in Harrison that day, and the waterlons began to pop and then watermelon juice began run over the parking lot and the donkeys did what donkeys do, and you can imagine what it looked like. The thing I didn't realize about Sam, though, and the people who were involved in those early days in Wal-Mart is that they had a quality that I haven't seen in many people or in many companies, and that was that there was never a day that went by that they didn't improve something." When Sam died in 1994, the same David Glass, who had been hired by Sam earlier, became President and CEO of Wal-Mart, and the ratail store witnessed its greatest growth.

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

On October 10th, 1961 the book Catch 22 by author Joseph Heller was first published, and it did not become a best seller at all in the U.S. unlike in England where it did become a best seller immediately. Thanks to the movie version of it made in 1970 by director Mike Nichols, the book became a best seller in the U.S. Hence, on October 10, 2011 it was the 50th Anniversary of the publising of this book - which is about a World War II bombardier captain who intended to have himself be declared insane so that he wouldn't have to fly anymore missions bombarding cities in Europe; the book also spawned the catchy phrase "Catch 22" - when something never come to a close. The main character was played by Alan Arkin as one of the first aspergers known in the world. Also Orson Wells and Martin Balsam performed in the movie. As is known, Mr. Joseph Heller was once told at a dinner party, "Haven't written anything as good as 'Catch 22' have you?" and his response was "who has."

A Poem by John D. Rockefeller Sr.

"I was early taught to work as well as play; my life has been one long happy holiday, full of work and full of play. I dropped the worry on the way, and God was good to me every day."

Los Hombres de Accion

Todo aquel que llegó lejos, lo hizo a través de la acción.

A los hombres de acción, les sonrie la Diosa de la Fortuna. Del libro, "El Hombre más Rico de Babilonia."

John D. Rockefeller Senior's worth.

In present terms, John D. Rockefeller Senior's fortune is valued at anywhere from $us 630 to $us 900 billion dollars, it was worth 2% of the U.S. economy. He truly believed that God intended for him to be a millionaire.