Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Albert Einstein: Reflection of human frailty
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.” -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
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Warren Buffett: Temperament
“Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. once you’re above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.” – Warren Buffett.
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Irish proverb: Best cures in doctor’s book
Thought For Today A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. – Irish Proverb.
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Robert Lynd: Friendship
Thought For Today Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. – Robert Lynd, The Peal Of Bells.
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Warren Buffett: Pin lies in wait for every bubble
“A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street – a community in which quality control is not prized – will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks…
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Bhavna Bhalla: Silence can’t be manipulated
Thought For Today Words can be manipulated but silence you can’t. – Bhavna Bhalla on Facebook.
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Warren Buffett: Impious
“Questioning GAAP figures may seem impious to some. After all, what are we paying the accountants for if it is not to deliver us the “truth” about our business. But the accountants’ job is to record, not to evaluate. The evaluation job falls to investors and managers.” – Warren Buffett. Related articles by Zemanta Buffett…
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Piet Hein: Against our own
“In International / Consequences / the players must reckon / to reap what they’ve sown. / We have a defence / against other defences, / but what’s to defend us / against our own?” —Piet Hein.
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Blaise Pascal: Justice and power
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and that whatever is powerful may be just.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Voltaire: Creature of age
“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. ” —Voltaire.
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Peter Lynch: Not a gamble
“The stock market really isn’t a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.” —– Peter Lynch.
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Yiddish proverb: Same dough, yes. Same oven, no.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. —-Yiddish proverb Related articles by Zemanta Who Is A Gentleman? (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Some Asides! (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Asides! (linusfernandes.com) Thought For Today (linusfernandes.com) How to Influence Without Authority, an interview with author Dr. Allan Cohen (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Asides…
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Francel: God gave us the forest
“God gave us the forest so that we could take what we need. My ancestors are not angry. There are still many trees in the forest.” FRANCEL, a villager in Madagascar, on widespread poaching of rare rosewood trees. Source: NYTimes.com
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Anais Nin: Truth and illusion
“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.” —Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977).
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Warren Buffett: Durability of competitive advantage
“The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage” —Warren Buffett.
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Friedrich W Schelling: Music in space
“Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.” —Friedrich W Schelling, philosopher.
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Susan RoAne: Respect for people
“Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.” —Susan RoAne, writer.
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Anonymous: Remain competitive
“We should remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.” – Anonymous.
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Bob Dylan: Success
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” —Bob Dylan. Related articles by Zemanta China Blocks Bob Dylan Tour (beatcrave.com) Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” Outgrowing the Grown-Up Album (psychedelichippiemusic.blogspot.com)
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Larry Bird: Practice
“I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if someone somewhere was practicing more than me.” —Larry Bird, basketball player.
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John Wayne: By their balls
“If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” —John Wayne.
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Benjamin Graham: Good hard look from time to time
“Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies’ performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.” – Benjamin Graham.
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Marcel Archard: Silent men
“Women like silent men, they think they’re listening.” —Marcel Achard, playwright.
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Warren Buffett: Thinking against polling
Image via Wikipedia “…a business or stock is not an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What’s required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell‘s observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: ‘Most men would rather…
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Ma Yaohai: Marriage
“Marriage is like water. You have to drink it. Swinging is like wine. Some people feel it’s delicious the first time they try it, so they keep drinking. Some people try it and think it tastes bad, so they never drink it again.” MA YAOHAI, whom a Chinese court sentenced to prison for “crowd licentiousness.”…
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Jack Canfield: Vision and belief
“Every time you share your vision, you strengthen your own subconscious belief that you can achieve it.”—Jack Canfield.
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Warren Buffett: Intelligent answer to questions
Image by Getty Images via Daylife “You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent…
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Walter Schloss: Timidity
Image via Wikipedia “Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.” – Walter Schloss.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Language
Image via Wikipedia “Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (1772-1834). Related articles by Zemanta Quotes & Asides! (linusfernandes.com) Change (linusfernandes.com) The Tower Of Babel (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Some Asides! (linusfernandes.com)…
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Peter Lynch: Relatively predictable over twenty years
“Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they’re going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.” – Peter Lynch.
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Henry David Thoreau: Friendship
Image via Wikipedia “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” ~Henry David Thoreau, quoted in “Teens Talk Growing Up”
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Michel de Montaigne: Truth
“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.” —Michel de Montaigne, essayist.
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Warren Buffett: Long-term competitive advantage
Embed from Getty Images “Long-term competitive advantage in a stable industry is what we seek in a business. If that comes with rapid organic growth, great. But even without organic growth, such a business is rewarding. We will simply take the lush earnings of the business and use them to buy similar businesses elsewhere.” –…
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Unknown: Things could be worse
Image via Wikipedia “Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.” ~Unknown, quoted in “On Being A Parent” Related articles by Zemanta Investing Quote! (linusfernandes.com) Who Is A Gentleman? (linusfernandes.com) Quotes And Asides (linusfernandes.com) Rumsfeld’s Rules (linusfernandes.com) Project Management Quote (linusfernandes.com)
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G K Chesterton: Morality
A man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. – G K Chesterton
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Mark Twain: Kindness
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~Mark Twain, quoted in “Loving Our Cats”.
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Unknown: Happiness
Image by danbri via Flickr “Happiness is a way of traveling, not a destination.” ~Unknown, quoted in “Teens Talk Middle School”.
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Benjamin Graham: Mathematics
Image via Wikipedia “In the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from.” – Benjamin Graham Related articles by Zemanta Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) How Cheap Are Stocks? (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
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John Lennon: Life
Image via Wikipedia “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~John Lennon, quoted in “Power Moms”. Related articles by Zemanta John Lennon Imagine (slideshare.net) a Thought for Today (linusfernandes.com) a Thought for Today (linusfernandes.com) Six Ways Too Boost Your Brain Power (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) Just Quotes! (linusfernandes.com)
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Warren Buffett: Unpredictable sequence
“The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.” – Warren Buffett
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Marc Holm: Don’t look back
“Don’t look back unless you intend to go that way.” ~Marc Holm, quoted in “On Being A Parent”
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Warren Buffett: Fourth Law of Motion
“Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.’ If he had not been…
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Jean Webster: Little pleasures
“It isn’t the big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.” ~Jean Webster, quoted in “The Golf Book”.
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Warren Buffett: Uncertainty
“An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn’t it be better to wait until things clear up a bit?…face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear [and] you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of…
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Unknown: Closer than yesterday
Thought For Today “I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.” ~Unknown, quoted in “The Golf Book” Related articles by Zemanta Project Management Quote (linusfernandes.com) 10 reasons to smile (slideshare.net)
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John Bogle: Consequences
Investing isn’t just about probabilities. It’s about consequences, and you’ve got to be prepared for them.” – John Bogle
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C.C. Scott: Human Spirit
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” ~C.C. Scott, quoted in “Tough Times, Tough People”. Embed from Getty Images
