General Investment Authority

Famous quotes containing the words general, investment and/or authority:

    We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write, on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)