E. W. Howe Quotes

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Nothing keeps its promise.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

The current crisis is not simply a market failure in which prices are not functioning properly, but a profound loss of faith in money’s capacity to tell the truth.

'This guy's a clown! He's just all talk!' I've heard that many times in my career. And then they're sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

If you can't trust your boss - or your pension company - to take care of your investment, who can you trust? The vast majority of company chiefs take their responsibilities seriously and protect their workers' final salary pensions. But for too long, the reckless few playing fast and loose with people's futures have got away scot-free.

You may hear the most beautiful things, you may hear promises, you may hear everything you want to hear but if the person you're dating is not following up with their actions then they're just words.