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Peer Reviewed and Published Studies on Market Intelligence

Academy of Market Intelligence is the global thought leader on Market Intelligence and first to research and study market intelligence to identify it as a distinguished concept. His work was the first peered reviewed study in history on market intelligence; thus, becoming the leading authority on market intelligence to first apply market intelligence to executive performance. His pioneering thesis and dissertation studies on Market Intelligence (MKI) included formal definitions of Intelligence (I), Business Intelligence (BI), Competitive Intelligence (CI), Competitor Intelligence (CRI), Marketing Research (MKTR), Marketing Information Systems (MKTIS), Knowledge Management Systems (KMS), Strategic Intelligence (SI), Tactical Intelligence (TI), Counter-intelligence (CTI), Real-time Intelligence (RTI), Whisper Intelligence (WI), and Marketing Intelligence (MKTI). This was the first effort made to identify the properties and evolve an academic definition. Intricate models were developed for application - e.g. the distinguished "Double Helix of Market Intelligence" © 1992.

Executive Perceptions of the Value of Marketing Intelligence - Population study: CEOs, Presidents, & Senior Executives of Fortune 500 Companies. Doctoral Thesis (2002). 353 pages. European ISBN & British Library © DXN 048545 & DX 217939 University Microfilms International (UMI) http://www.umi.com
ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts International (800.521.3042)
US Library of Congress ISBN: © 0-493-38073-6 (TX 5-453-268)

Market Intelligence: CEO Attitudes Toward Knowledge Management Systems - Population study: CEOs, Presidents, & Senior Executives of Pharmaceutical Companies. Worldwide & Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence. Doctoral Dissertation (2001). 534 pages. US Library of Congress ISBN: © TX U-987-180

Establishing the Foundation for Market Intelligence Worldwide - Usage Study of the Term Market Intelligence - First Definition to Define Market Intelligence . Thesis (1998). 416 pages. University Microfilms International (UMI) http://www.umi.com
ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts International (800.521.3042)
LD 03809, Volume 23, Issue 03R
US Library of Congress ISBN: © TX 4-731-787

Tom Quotes
2010 - 1989
Thomas Fletcher Grooms

TRADING LIFE FOR CASH

Business

“If you want to be an entrepreneur, study capitalism.
If you want to work for the government, study socialism.
If you want to work for a large corporation, study communism.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Business card is the lasting memory of you.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Business card is the most important piece of literature in the world, it is the way the world does business .” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“You do not leave your bedroom without your business cards in your hand.” - Thomas Fletcher
Grooms

“Less restrictions, higher productivity.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Did you ever think about hiring someone who knew what they were doing instead of continuing to do the same thing over and over?.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Be an American, practice business like an Asian and live like a European.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Work yourself to success, not death.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Human capital is not just from learning – not just analytical brain power – but reflects people skills and emotional intelligence and control through face-to-face contact .” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“A businessperson cannot get rich on consumption; instead, a businessperson has to save their money in the form of capital formation and invest their money in productive returns.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“A business cannot prosper on consumption or credit; instead, a business has to save its profits in the form of capital formation and invest its money in productive enterprises.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The US is the most richly diverse nation – multiracial – multicultural – multiethnic composite of every society on the globe – use it to learn.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“When your performance is weak and no one corrects you; it is because they do not care about you.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“It is not the economy; it is you.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Rise early.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Be abstemious.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Be frugal.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Attend to your own business and do not trust it to another.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Be not afraid to work, and diligently, too, with your own hands.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Treat everyone with civility and respect.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Good manners insure success.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Accomplish what you undertake.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Decide, then persevere.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Diligence and industry overcome all difficulties.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Never be mean – rather give than take the extra dollar.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Never postpone till tomorrow what can be done today.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Never anticipate wealth from any source but labor.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Honesty is not only the best policy, but the only policy.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Commence at the first beginning and keep climbing.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Make your word as good as good as your bond.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Seek knowledge to plan, enterprise to execute, honesty to govern all.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Never overtrade.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Never give to large credit.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Time is money.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Reckon the hours of the day as so many dollars, the minutes as so many cents.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Make few promises.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Keep your secrets.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Live within your income.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Sobriety above all things.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Luck is a word that does not apply to success.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Not too much caution – slow but sure is the thing.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The highest monuments are built piece by piece.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Step by step we mount the pyramids.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Be bold – be resolute when the clouds gather, difficulties are surmounted by opposition.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Self-confidence, self-reliance is your capital.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Your conscience the best monitor.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Never be discouraged.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Ninety-nine may say no, the hundredth, yes.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Take off your coat, roll up your sleeves, don’t be afraid of manual labor.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The best letter of introduction is your own energy.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Lean own yourself when you walk.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Keep good company.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Keep out of politics unless you are sure to win – you are never sure to win, but the world needs most politicians who are business.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Only a rich man can afford to dress poor.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“It’s style having longevity, not fashion.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“It’s etiquette, good manners and social graces creating good relationships; not money or connections.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“You can’t eat prestige.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“If you have to finance it, you probably can’t afford it.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Risk factor for an entrepreneur is not a quick shoot-from-the-hip decision, but rather a slow painstaking methodical and logical 99.99999% certainty .” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“As population grows, freedom and liberty erode.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Do not take a job because it is available - take it because it is something you like to do.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Knowledge is useless if you don't have the money to use it.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The more cash, the more opportunities.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Opportunities can be hard to spot because they look a lot like work.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Without money, you are just a piece of meat in a meat grinder.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“A businessman without money is like trying to play poker without any chips.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Unless you are in a position of influence to effect change, make change - it doesn't matter what you think.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The problem with trade imbalances is not too much imports, but a lack of exports.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Debt is what turns deflation into a depression.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Poverty is a mental disease.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Everything is about either money (95%) or sex (5%)." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Others will forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Nothing in life is so hard that you can not make it easier by the way you think about it.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Make it as good as you can, because there is always someone around to make it perfect.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“If you think you are smart, there is always someone around to show you how smart you really are.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“If you were rich, you would be smart too.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Everyone is a genius in their own mind, which is why you should give them adequate space.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The Secret of my Success is to Work as hard as I can, Save all that I can, and Hope for the Best." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Marketing is not only life, but the life force of every organization.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Before 55, money is more important, after 55, time is more important.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“You are going to work like 'hell' all your life unless you are rich; so you can either work like 'hell' and be rich; or work like 'hell' and be poor.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Wealth does not come from sweat and hard labor, but rather from doing it by the numbers.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Effortless way is best. Reflection is the key. Easy does it.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“In business, the hypocrisy of giving is low pay to your own employees and giving generously to charity.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The Art of Business is #1 the cost of doing business (O/H and ROI) and access to markets (channels of distribution, logistics, and value chain integration.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The main consideration is the liking of the business, not if you are going to make a little money or a lot of money.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Business is currency and trading - specifically the speed of the deal.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Customers do not want to wait; you have to decide in a few hours or minutes.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The World still functions under blind assumptions.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Banks are for saving - money and markets are for gambling.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Assets are provisional, but liabilities are unceasing.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Prices are the best way to ration demand in society.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Never been to a worthwhile meeting in my life that could not have been done by any other method.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Experience has nothing to do with performance once a person steps into the responsibility." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“A business cannot survive off the backs of its workers and low pay.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Media delivers the world through a highly distorted lens of sales.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Organizations fight, for a lack of leadership.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“One can have all the data and research available; however, the purest leadership decision is still instinct.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“How can you lead in the 21-Twentyfirst century, if you look like the 20-Twentieth century.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Inflation is a monetary bubble created by excess currency resulting eventually in circulation of deflation popping values .” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The person you curse today may tomorrow be your boss.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Best way to have a job is to create a job.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“In a Depression, you lay employees off in all categories and adjust all positions of all employees across the board – you do not pay bonuses, give pay raises, take money or borrow money; nor, spend more than you take in revenues regardless of whether you are government, business, church or household.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“People lead change, business follows change and governments react to change to protect their re-election.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Retention bonuses are for people who cannot get a job anywhere else.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Bonuses are bribes for a job expected.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Bonuses for retention are a lie whether for companies, government or military; let them walk, open the door, let it him them in the ass and see how far they go.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Bonus is a sales tool for motivating performance, not for taking stock holders retirement money.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“You want to put kids to work – abolish minimum wage – the union insurance policy.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Education

“I am a teacher and I cannot teach anybody anything.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Educating creativity out of students is wrong.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Education takes us into the future we cannot foresee.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Education is to develop the talents and creative artistry of students.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Education is to prepare students to be wrong.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Mistakes are the best thing any student can do.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The most important of knowledge missing in the world is the forgotten lessons of the classroom and that is from the teacher who is the expert and most current on business - and not the business owner or entrepreneur as they buried in the day-to-day; as some misguided say those who can do - do and those who can't teach, when those who do - do because of what they learned form a teacher.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Those who can do, those who can do more teach; after all, those who do learned most of what they know from their teacher.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Those who can do become teachers, those who cannot become administrators.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Need public education, not public government schools.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Lack of education is insurmountable.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“All education is self-education.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Knowledge is power and advantage.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“To be a teacher can be summarized in 5 words: you have to know something.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“To receive an education from a teacher can be summarized in 9 words: you have to know what you are talking about.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The ones that could not make it in the classroom as a teacher become administrators.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Everyone in business and government acquired what little they know from a teacher.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Elementary and Secondary Education is the Responsibility of the Parent.
University Education is the Responsibility of the Student.
Lessons of Life are the Responsibility of You.
For when You have Learned to Teach Yourself, You will not need a Teacher." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"If you were told that you had one only hour to cut down a tree, how many of you would spend the first forty-five minutes sharpening their ax - much like an education." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The base of all change in a community and nation is the family; parents knowing how to be parents - good parents and positive role model for their children. The problem is that how to be a good parent is not being taught in the community.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The student hasn’t learned if the teacher hasn’t taught.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Life is work, and work with indifference is bitter bread from the baker, sour milk from the farmer, filth from the sweeper, and ignorance from the student.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The greatest learning is done outside the classroom.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Success is hard work, hard thinking, and a considerable amount of luck.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Do things as best you can yourself.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Do not substitute breadth (wisdom) for depth (knowledge).” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Everything we learn goes into everything we do.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Anyone can forecast the past.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Anyone can state the obvious.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Any business should be able to fire anyone at any time for any or no reason, especially if it is your business and your money.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it eventually kills all its pupils.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Time is one of the greatest teachers, but unfortunately it eventually kills all its pupils.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“No education is worth debt.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Money

"It is time the South stopped subsidizing the higher standard of living in the North – it has been 100 years and time the Civil War was over." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Do not confuse money class with the educated class." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The money class and the educated class are not necessarily synonymous." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“To those who say that today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable and should not as they have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing, is certain to depreciate in value, will probably prove inflationary and therefore accelerate declines in the real value of cash, I say not necessarily so.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Money, you will spend it or invest it; better yet just keep it safe."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Saving and accumulating cash is best way to become rich."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The only real cures for market loss is time and price changes."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Stocks, bonds and real estate is gambling, anything other than cash is gambling – bet you never heard that in school or from a salesperson."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The unexpected is how you make money." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Retirement is for the rich." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Do your own research." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Let the market regulate." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"You can make money in anything if you know what you are doing."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"A steady 5% yield is better than stocks and real estate unless you are lucky." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The financial markets are a reflection of yesterday, today’s movement and tomorrow’s uncertainty.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Invest up to your sleeping point." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The World’s battle is fought over bad debt and bad credit." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Interest rate is the theory of why." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The counter to debt is gold." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The counter to lack of money is work." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The counter to misery is to be happy." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The counter to not becoming what is not acting to our dreams."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Bad times at the present are better than the bad times of the past."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Consumer sovereignty makes a difference as to where and with whom you spend you money." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Deflation does not cure inflation." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"It’s the people stupid, not the companies." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"It’s the country stupid, not government politics." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Cash famine is caused by having no cash." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Anytime you get out of cash you are in danger of loosing your money and your liberty." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Make sure what you buy and accumulate, you want to take with you into retirement.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Religion and the Federal Reserve is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Choice between government loans & assistance and filing bankruptcy, bankruptcy is the prudent choice for all concerned." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Who cares what broke people think." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Politics - Government - Your Wealth

"Bad laws create disrespect for the law." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Capitalists spend their own money, Socialists spend other people's money, and Communists spend only certain people's money.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“As long as you can get something free, why work for it.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"If you want less government, the person must take over and do for themselves." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"While governments are focused on globalization and one world government, the people are focused on what is best for themselves and their country." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Self-reliance is better than dependency." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Laws and regulations (Socialism & Communism) or market flux Capitalism), the choice is yours.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Greater the liberty; greater the innovation and creativity.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“A nation cannot get rich on consumption; instead, a nation has to save its money in the form of capital formation and invest its money in productive programs that profit the nation.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Socialists and Communists are committed to the destruction of free enterprise and liberty everywhere.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Socialists should not practice Communism.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“There is only freedom of opportunity.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The United States is the only country in the world that is a threat to the old order or renamed new world order.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Tariffs are the protection of the United States market from slave labor competition from abroad.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Protective tariffs protect a country from unfair competition and unlevel playing fields when reciprocity is absent.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Protective tariffs, when reciprocity is absent, protect a country’s standard of living, industry and commerce.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Protective tariffs, when reciprocity is absent, protect the drain away of country wealth.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Free trade, when reciprocity is absent, with dependence on foreign markets reduces wages to mere items of cost to be kept as low as possible.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"How do you defend liberty – with your life." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Think – it is the one thing the government does not control."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Political correctness is enslavement and censorship." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"More Government is Less Individual Responsibility." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The only race is that of your fellow countrymen.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“There are only two types of people, people that are nice and people that are not.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Bad laws create disrespect for the law.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Diversity is racism.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Political Correctness is racism.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Affirmative Action is racism.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Unity is fairness of opportunity.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Governments do and deny.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Governments do for themselves, not to the benefit of the nation.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The most effective governments tend to be the least corrupt.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“All governments are inherently by their very nature Socialistic.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“All governments move toward Communism as their populations and territorial control grows.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The truth is the most believable as a lie.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Men and women fight for freedom; then begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The best defense of a country is an educated voter.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Allies are a temporary arrangement for convenience at one point in time.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Capitalism to work depends on honesty and ethics of those who work and prosper.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“No political ideology can work with an unethical citizenry that is capitalism, democracy, fascism, socialism, communism or even a dictatorship.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“As the death of Kennedy resulted in a shift of power from the mafia to the federal government, the economy of the 21st century will shift economic power from the north to the south and end the civil war.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Congress greatest legislative achievement of the 20th century is the Congressional two-flush toilette.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Elect a Democrat and you have a War – elect a Republican and you have a depression.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The question is not Democrat or Republican, but what is best for the nation.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“It is ethics, not government, that determines the success of a nation.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Self-discipline, not censorship." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Stop looking to government and others, and start looking to own self reliance and independence.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"People who know are usually never in charge." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Vote HS (horse sense), not BS." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"What can I do – don’t vote party, don’t vote looks, don’t vote age, don’t vote education, don’t vote experience, as it has nothing to do with performance once a person steps into the responsibility."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"What can I do – vote – run for office as the greatest lack is business educated elected officials – let your opinions be known – embrace liberty and freedom by being debt free with cash and no dependency on the government." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Vote for someone, not against someone or don’t vote." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Campaigns are only show business and once in office policy."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The US is the most brain-washed people of any country in the world." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The US has the least respect for age and education of any country in the world." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The greatest political delusion is if the politicians were as smart as the general public.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"One world alliance in prosperity and protectionism in a depression."
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"It is now estimated that both funds, Social Security Trust Fund and Medicare Tax Fund will run out of money sooner than previously expected; so, Congress can just get off their chairs – pick up a shovel and earn the money they irresponsibly took and spent from the public – they can start by replacing funds with rolling over the Congressional Retirement System and then if need be Military Retirement System into Social Security – they want Communism Equality then they can achieve it the old fashion way and earn it." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Presidency and Congress easily get confused – they think it is their money to spend." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"US economy bottom of the boat is gone, the Congress and President are still bailing out water with a bucket." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The US has become an expert on the world's business and everyone else’s, except its own." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Like a child told no, why not, its not my fault, I want, I want, I want it like it always was, so goes Congress and President." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"The sooner the government gets out of others business and the economy, the sooner it will heal." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"In the government's grand balance sheet, printing money does nothing more than shift debts from one government account to another. It does not create wealth. It creates country poverty and citizen poverty. It certainly does not stop bond prices from plunging and interest rates from surging." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Congress and the President cannot even legislate a toilet that flushes; so, how are they going to run General Motors or the economy?" - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Taxes

“Good citizens should minimize taxes to protect the government from wasting tax payers money.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Every time governments want more taxes in a down economy, it is always for the sympathy of the teachers or children who never receive a penny.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Better government built housing sold to the poor to be repaid to the taxpayer provider financier than free housing and food for those able to work.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Taxes are to build Socialists and Communists regimes.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Few and low taxes are to build Capitalists and Democratic regimes.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Regarding fixes to the marketplace, cost to the taxpayers is not worth the benefit to the nation.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“If the government were to run the oceans of the world, pretty soon there would be a shortage of water and a crisis demanding an ocean tax.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Success

"Cannot equate brains with money, brains with degrees, brains with race, brains with gender, brains with intelligence; so much for success." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Who cares what know-it-all’s think.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Religion

“Christians are Messianic Jews.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Jews are Christians and like Paul Harvey said - now for the rest of the story.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Thoughts

“Water seeks its own level.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Life is like being on a treadmill." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“I would not want to be like no one I know.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“You can not see where you are going, until you have already been there.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Do not live your life as a result of other people's thinking or opinions - follow yourself.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The future controls us, we do not control it; yet what we become is within our power to create.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“You want to be excelling - not competing.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“A perfect solution applied with passion later is better than a good decision applied now with vigor.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Think quietly unto yourself.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Stay on good mental terms with others.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The world is bigger than us all.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Character is what you choose to do when others are watching; Integrity is what you choose to do when no one is watching.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“We talk when we are not at peace with our thoughts or we fear being alone.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Daily life is our religion.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“We are told that we are as strong as our weakest link, but the truth is we are as strong as our strongest link.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“We are each measured by our smallest deed.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Test your generosity by giving to the undeserving.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Wisdom is not what we give to others, but what we take from others.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Silence and tranquility is a self-chosen life.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Just be one of us.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Knowing, not knowing what to do, and not being able to do anything about it, leaves one in the same situation.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The best way to have money is to never spend it; the best way to cure disease is to never get it; and, the best way to have a clear conscience is to never violate it.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“There is more to life than investing; there is more to life than work; there is more to life than school.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“If an innocent person goes to prison, it is inexcusable; if more than, there is something wrong with the legal education and the people in the system.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

War

“Arm for peace, disarm for war.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“War is caused by thoughts, resources or religion.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The most effective armed forces tend to be the least corrupt.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“War is the savior from global domination, global government, and global dictatorship.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Fighting war with green will make you see red.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

Life

“Life is hard to let go.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Life is to enjoy.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Live simple and frugal.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Life, purpose is to make everything better.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Life should be lived simple; slow, but sure.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“No such thing as a simple thing, except for the appearance.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Life is an accumulation of choices.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Life is full of mistakes and regrets, this is greatly in part due to the choices of others have made for us.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“On health, choices and movement.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Write your own life story.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Don’t be fooled and live longer than you expect.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“If everyone do what is beat for themselves, it becomes better for everything else.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“You are what you are as a result of what you were when.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Every woman should have her own home and every man should have his own red barn.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Women need their space and men need their silence.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Learn from the past then live in the present and prepare for the future.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“The secret to longevity is to stay away from funerals and hospitals.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Experience is what you get when you do not get your way.”
- Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“I know how bad things can get, what I do not know is how good things can get.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

"Ever noticed how few people tend to live longer who continue to work and stay more active." - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

“Like my cousin Davy Crockett said, You people who do stupid things just because you can in Tennessee may all go to Hell and I will go to Texas.” - Thomas Fletcher Grooms

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