Beliefs
Personal
I Believe...
- I believe...
- Life's too short not to have fun.
- "Nothing stands up to gratitude." ~Nick Murray
- You get what you pay for.
- Education of the character is every bit as important as education of the mind.
Baseball
I believe...
- "A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." ~Jim Bouton
- Barry Bonds (and others like him) should be expunged from the record books and never allowed on the HOF ballot.
- "In high school I wrote an essay on baseball and my teacher told me I had to rewrite it on a more serious topic. So I wrote an essay about the World Series and my teacher gave up." ~Tucker Elliot
Financial
I believe...
- "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~Leonardo da Vinci
- "Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas." ~Paul Samuelson
- Warren Buffet was right: "I've never met a man who can predict the market."
- "The four most dangerous words in investing are: This time it's different." ~John Templeton
Faith
I believe...
- We are put in this planet to love and to serve.
- Jesus showed us the way.
- We eliminate God from the public sector at our own peril.
- "We are not human beings having an occasional spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a very temporary, human experience." ~Fr. Joe Hennessy paraphrasing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin