//Javascript to provide a random quote of the day
//quote array
quoteList = new Array();
quoteList[0] = "\"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.\"
- Woody Allen, film-maker.";
quoteList[1] = "\"The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.\"
- Paul Anka, singer/songwriter.";
quoteList[2] = "\"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.\"
- Jane Austen, novelist.";
quoteList[3] = "\"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.\"
- Ambrose Bierce, writer (The Devil’s Dictionary).";
quoteList[4] = "\"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.\"
- Ambrose Bierce, writer (The Devil’s Dictionary).";
quoteList[5] = "\"Mediocrity is the easiest thing in the world to achieve. Just start attacking the people who have been working like slaves to establish things, make money scarce, concentrate on errors of judgment rather than the successes and you’ll get it sure enough. That’s not criticism, you know, that’s bitching and it’s a very effective instrument of destruction.\"
- Erik Bruhn, dancer, choreographer and former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada.";
quoteList[6] = "\"A country may have great corporations, but if it has no literature it is a country that has no soul. It is a shop keeper’s society.\"
- Morley Callaghan, writer and novelist.";
quoteList[7] = "\"Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, no or henceforth to the end of the world.\"
- Thomas Carlyle, essayist.";
quoteList[8] = "\"The different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision.\"
- Lewis Carroll, writer and mathematician (Alice in Wonderland).";
quoteList[9] = "\"When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.\"
- Anton Chekhov, playwright.";
quoteList[10] = "\"I wonder if the next generation will share our feeling that it’s a privilege to be useful. It’s this vision that makes us so strong.\"
- Ludmilla Chiriaeff, founder of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.";
quoteList[11] = "\"I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.\"
- e. e. cummings, poet.";
quoteList[12] = "\"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards a ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.\"
- Leonardo da Vinci, visual artist and inventor.";
quoteList[13] = "\"Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.\"
- Honoré de Balzac, novelist.";
quoteList[14] = "\"And what about the cash, my existence’s jewel?\"
- Charles Dickens, novelist (Mr. Mantalini in Nicholas Nickleby).";
quoteList[15] = "\"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.\"
- Charles Dickens, novelist (David Copperfield).";
quoteList[16] = "\"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.\"
- Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter.";
quoteList[17] = "\"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.\"
- Henry Fielding, writer.";
quoteList[18] = "\"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.\"
- Errol Flynn, actor.";
quoteList[19] = "\"An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.\"
- Anatole France, writer.";
quoteList[20] = "\"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.\"
- Robert Frost, poet.";
quoteList[21] = "\"What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.\"
- Robert Graves, poet.";
quoteList[22] = "\"If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay – in solid cash – the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners.\"
- Aldous Huxley, writer.";
quoteList[23] = "\"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.\"
- Henrik Ibsen, playwright.";
quoteList[24] = "\"All round numbers are false.\"
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer.";
quoteList[25] = "\"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.\"
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer.";
quoteList[26] = "\"Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won’t eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.\"
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer.";
quoteList[27] = "\"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.\"
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer.";
quoteList[28] = "\"Do you know what it means to be an artistic director? To look after the toilets, the phone, the garbage…?\"
- Jacques Languirand, playwright, director, artistic director.";
quoteList[29] = "\"When I go into a bank I get rattled.\"
- Stephen Leacock, humorist and economist (My Financial Career).";
quoteList[30] = "\"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.\"
- Stephen Leacock, humorist and economist (The Perfect Salesman).";
quoteList[31] = "\"There were warnings of apprehension from economists. There always are; apprehension is their business.\"
- Stephen Leacock, humorist and economist.";
quoteList[32] = "\"There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.\"
- David Letterman, comedian.";
quoteList[33] = "\"What I dream of is an art of balance.\"
- Henri Matisse, visual artist.";
quoteList[34] = "\"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.\"
- W. Somerset Maugham, novelist.";
quoteList[35] = "\"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.\"
- Dorothy Parker, writer.";
quoteList[36] = "\"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.\"
- Pablo Picasso, visual artist.";
quoteList[37] = "\"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.\"
- Tom Robbins, novelist.";
quoteList[38] = "\"You always pass failure on the way to success.\"
- Mickey Rooney, actor.";
quoteList[39] = "\"Lack of money is the root of all evil.\"
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright.";
quoteList[40] = "\"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.\"
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright.";
quoteList[41] = "\"If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.\"
- Tom Stoppard, playwright.";
quoteList[42] = "\"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.\"
- Tom Stoppard, playwright (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead).";
quoteList[43] = "\"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, for very long, burn.\"
- Igor Stravinsky, composer.";
quoteList[44] = "\"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.\"
- Jonathan Swift, writer.";
quoteList[45] = "\"Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.\"
- Tom Thomson, painter.";
quoteList[46] = "\"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.\"
- Henry David Thoreau, writer.";
quoteList[47] = "\"Trouble is good for mankind. When you are in trouble you get an understanding of life and you find the answers to many questions.\"
- F. H. Varley, painter, and member of the Group of Seven.";
quoteList[48] = "\"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.\"
- Andy Warhol, visual artist.";
quoteList[49] = "\"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.\"
- Oscar Wilde, playwright and poet.";
quoteList[50] = "\"Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.\"
- Oscar Wilde, playwright and poet.";
quoteList[51] = "\"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.\"
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.";
quoteList[52] = "\"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.\"
- William Butler Yeats, poet.";
quoteList[53] = "\"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.\"
- Frank Zappa, composer.";
quoteList[54] = "\"I've been rich and I've been poor; Believe me, honey, rich is better.\"
- Sophie Tucker, last of the red-hot mamas.";
quoteList[55] = "\"From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.\"
- Sophie Tucker, last of the red-hot mamas.";
quoteList[56] = "\"You know how much money I made this year? ... No? Neither do I. My accountant does. But I know how much he makes. Always know how much your accountant makes.\"
- Daniel Brooks, playwright, director, actor, teacher (Insomnia)";
//randomization
var now = new Date();
var secs = now.getSeconds();
var raw_random_number = Math.random(secs);
var random_number = Math.round(raw_random_number * (quoteList.length));
if (random_number == quoteList.length){random_number = 0}
//set quote
var quote = quoteList[random_number];