Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Potter Stewart: Inherently different
“Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.” —Potter Stewart.
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Ronald Reagan: Already been born
“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.” —-Ronald Reagan.
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Mother Teresa: Greatest destroyer of peace
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.” —Mother Teresa.
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Pope Francis: Violence, injustice and sin
“We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.” —Pope Francis.
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Thomas Merton: Mental and emotional rubbish
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.” —Thomas Merton.
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Lady Nancy Astor: Reason I don’t drink
“One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.” —Lady Nancy Astor.
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Nancy Astor: Main dangers
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.” ~ Nancy Astor.
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Kenneth C Griffin: Best and highest use
“Gambling is entertainment… Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.” —Kenneth C. Griffin.
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G K Chesterton: Immortal power
“The important thing in life is not to keep a steady system of pleasure and composure (which can be done quite well by hardening one’s heart or thickening one’s head), but to keep alive in oneself the immortal power of astonishment and laughter, and a kind of young reverence.” —G K Chesterton.
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Alec Baldwin: Priority
“People don’t understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people’s faces and say, ‘This is my priority, and you can’t depend on me to help you.’ I was never good at that.” —Alec Baldwin.
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Nancy Pelosi: Bipartisanship
“Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.” —-Nancy Pelosi.
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Wilbur Ross: Tariffs
“Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.” —Wilbur Ross.
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Corazon Aquino: Meaningful
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” —Corazon Aquino.
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Sri Chinmoy: Changed forever
“Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.” —Sri Chinmoy, spiritual teacher.
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James Thurber: Elimination and selection
“It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive…
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Hilaire Belloc: Llama
“The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.” —Hilaire Belloc.
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Simon Sinek: Understand the structure
“The most effective way to rebel against structure and tear down walls is first to understand the structure we aim to reinvent.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Universally intolerant
“When the same modern mind does begin to be intolerant, it is just as universally intolerant as it was universally tolerant. It sends things in batches to the gallows just as it admitted them in mobs to the sanctuary.” —G K Chesterton.
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Stephen Gately: Hug
“I think it’s important to hug. It costs nothing and it’s a really lovely way of showing that you care.” —Stephen Gately.
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Stephen Gately: Rose that blushes with my love
“Oh, rose that blushes with my love Please help me to compose The words I wish to speak aloud To one who’d make me proud If she would hold her hand in mine And both our hearts entwine..” —Stephen Gately, The Tree of Seasons.
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Ronan Keating: Sweat, blood and tears
“Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don’t know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!” —Ronan Keating.
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Alice Temperley: Heritage
“You have to stay true to your heritage; that’s what your brand is about.” —Alice Temperley.
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Stefan Persson: Loyalty
“Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.” —Stefan Persson.
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Milena Glimbovski: Customer’s lifestyle
“Be your own best customer. Live your customer’s lifestyle.” —Milena Glimbovski.
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Mark Cuban: Best possible business
“Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.” —Mark Cuban.
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Meg Whitman: Remarkable
“When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.” —Meg Whitman.
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Geoffrey Zakarian: Lot of noise
“Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what you’re not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.” —Geoffrey Zakarian.
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Rafe Offer: Stay true to your values
“Stay true to your values. That’s why you were a success in the first place, and that’s how you make incredible things happen.” —Rafe Offer.
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Steve Davidson: Black cat in an unlit room
“Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there.” —Steve Davidson.
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Oscar Wilde: Success
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Anna Wintour: True vision
“Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing…
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Margaret Cho: Denying your own existence
“If you say you’re not a feminist, you’re almost denying your own existence.” —Margaret Cho.
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Gladys Knight: You can’t please everyone
“Believe me when I say this: you can’t please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn’t necessarily on your set list.” —Gladys Knight.
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Seth Klarman: Easier said than done
“While investors will obviously achieve the best results by remaining rational thinkers at all times, this is easier said than done. In the financial markets, emotion often takes over, and greed and fear come to dominate investor behavior. Even those who are aware of this, who expect always to invest rationally and to be able…
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Ogden Nash: Either or
“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” —Ogden Nash, I’m a Stranger Here Myself.
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Paulo Coelho: Be prepared
“Be ready to pay the price of your dreams. Free cheese can only be found in a mousetrap.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Carrie Underwood: Suck-it-up-and-move-on person
“I’m a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” —Carrie Underwood.
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Eunice de Souza: Meeting poets
“Meeting poets I am disconcerted sometimes by the colour of their socks the suspicion of a wig the wasp in the voice and an air, sometimes, of dankness. Best to meet in poems: cool speckled shells in which one hears a sad but distant sea.” —Eunice de Souza.
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Francois Rochon: Cassandra
“Trying to predict market quotations – for a stock, a sector or the whole market – is futile. It is astounding to see how many investment ‘professionals’ continue to waste their time and talent on an activity that has so many times proved its uselessness. And what is most surprising is that many investors still…
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Howard Marks: Rarely same person twice
“In both economic forecasting and investment management, it’s worth noting that there’s usually someone who gets it exactly right… but it’s rarely the same person twice. ” —Howard Marks.
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Warren Buffett: Track records
“I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a…
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Warren Buffett: Frailties of the prophet
“My own investment philosophy has developed around the theory that prophecy reveals far more about the frailties of the prophet than it reveals of the future. ” —Warren Buffett.
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Charlie Munger: Sheep guts
“People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There’s always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today’s forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the…
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Warren Buffett: Poison
“I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.” —Warren Buffett.
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John Kay: Differences between forecasts
“The differences between forecasts are trivial relative to the difference between all forecasts and what happens. ” —John Kay.
