Success of bitcoin and the exchanges that deal in it could be interpreted by some to mean the demise of central banks, Wall Street, and the Washington insiders who trade on inside information and market manipulation.
Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things - something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel.
There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.
The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.
Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.
When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
