P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I don't like to get in front of people.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.