Motley Fool was founded in 1993 by brothers David and Tom Gardner. Our name derives from Elizabethan drama, where only the court jester (the "Fool") could tell the King the truth without getting ...
“Fools came from all social strata ... In Jan Matejko’s 1862 depiction of Stańczyk, a famous Polish court jester, the figure sits slumped over in a chair, “having just discovered ...