A.R. Von Quotes

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

On all the peaks lies peace.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

In pain a new time is born.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

In pain is a new time born.

Get up, dress up, and show up.

Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.

Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.

Most people are cowards.

Every statute for terrorism requires violence.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

The physical manifestation of gold is nothing more than the physical manifestation of value itself.

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

When the money goes bad, everything else goes bad.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Battles decide everything.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.