Theodore J. Forstmann famous quotes

In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Letting Go #Running #Government

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Believe #Government #Decision

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Letting Go #Hands #Government

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Opposites #Insecurity #Risk

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Winning #Law #Want

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Giving #Joining #Pledge

We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Suicide #Responsibility #Compassion

What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government.
-- Theodore J. Forstmann

#Pain #Mean #Cutting

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.

When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.

Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'