Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Elizabeth Stone: Having a child
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.” ~Elizabeth Stone, quoted in “Thanks Mom”
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Art Linkletter: Way Things Turn Out
Image via Wikipedia “Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” ~Art Linkletter, quoted in ‘On Being A Parent’”.
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Warren Buffett: Re-election and legislation
“Legislators will correctly perceive that either raising taxes or cutting expenditures will threaten their re-election. To avoid this fate, they can opt for high rates of inflation, which never require a recorded vote and cannot be attributed to a specific action that any elected official takes.” —Warren Buffett.
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Marianne Williamson: Joy
“Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” ~Marianne Williamson, quoted in Tough Times, Tough People.
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Peter Lynch: Economic analysis
Image via Wikipedia “I spend about 15 minutes a year on economic analysis. The way you lose money in the stock market is to start off with an economic picture. I also spend 15 minutes a year on where the stock market is going.” —Peter Lynch
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Rebecca West: God
If there is a God, I don’t think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. –Rebecca West, author and journalist (1892-1983) Embed from Getty Images
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Richard Bach: Wanting and being
Image by Claudio.Ar (not too much online) via Flickr “If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach.
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Ludvig von Mises: Final collapse of a boom
“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” – Ludwig Von Mises.…
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Harry Truman: Mother
Image by cliff1066™ via Flickr “No one in the world can take the place of your mother.” ~Harry Truman, quoted in “Power Moms” Related articles by Zemanta Quotes And Asides (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com)
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Dalai Lama: Practice compassion
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” —Dalai Lama, spiritual leader.
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Winston Churchill: Living, giving, getting and life
Image by 3dstereopics via Flickr “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” ~Winston Churchill, quoted in “Power Moms”
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George Sheehan: Sweat
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.” ~George Sheehan, quoted in “Runners”.
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Warren Buffett: Cues
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/181192372 “For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn’t work is when you start doing things that you don’t understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it’s going up.” —Warren Buffett.
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Mignon McLaughlin: Courage that matters
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” ~Mignon McLaughlin, quoted in “Teens Talk Tough Times”.
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George Bernard Shaw: Better not do it by halves
“If you injure your neighbor, better not do it by halves.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Benjamin Graham: Prejudices
“With every new wave of optimism or pessimism, we are ready to abandon history and time-tested principles, but we cling tenaciously and unquestioningly to our prejudices.” —Benjamin Graham.
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Jack Canfield: Feedback
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” ~Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (Via Jack Canfield).
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Warren Buffett: Competency and safety
“People who know the edge of their own competency are safe, and those who don’t, aren’t.” —Warren Buffett. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/181192357
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Stephen Roberts: One fewer god
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ––Stephen Roberts, database architect (b. 1967).
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Warren Buffett: Pretty interesting results
“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.” —Warren Buffett.
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Richard Hofstadter: Mood of a society
“One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.” —Richard Hofstadter, historian (1916-1970).
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Warren Buffett: Inflation protection
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/181192357 “The best protection against inflation is your own earning power. If you are the best teacher, you will command earning power and get your share of the national economic pie, regardless of the value of the currency. The second best investment is in a good company.” —Warren Buffett.
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Unknown: New happy ending
“Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.” ~Unknown, quoted in Tough Times, Tough People.
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Betty Bender: Hearts at home
“When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” ~Betty Bender, quoted in “Teacher Tales”. Embed from Getty Images Related articles by Zemanta Quotes & Some Asides! (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Asides (linusfernandes.com) a Thought for Today (linusfernandes.com)
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Thomas Sowell: Scarcity
Image by arellis49 via Flickr The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. – Thomas Sowell
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Edwards Simmons: Dream of worthy accomplishments
“Some men dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them.” ~Edwards Simmons, quoted in “Inside Basketball”.
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Peter Lynch: Making money in stocks
“The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” —Peter Lynch.
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David Brin: Privacy and accountability
Management Quote “When it comes to privacy & accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.” – David Brin. Related articles by Zemanta Facebook Privacy Hole ‘Lets You See Where Strangers Plan To Go’ (huffingtonpost.com) Geist: Privacy takes big step towards global enforcement (thestar.com) Facebook’s move and privacy norms…
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Susan B Anthony: Reform
Image via Wikipedia “Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.” —Susan B. Anthony, reformer and suffragist (1820-1906).
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Donald Rumsfeld: Unknown unknowns
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.“ —Donald Rumsfeld.
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Jeremy Grantham: Disaster
“Greed + Incompetence + A Belief in Market Efficiency = Disaster.” – Jeremy Grantham
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Paul Krugman: Abolish the fire department
Image via Wikipedia “Anyone who says we need to be bipartisan should bear in mind that for the last several weeks Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader had been trying to stop reform with possibly the most dishonest argument ever made in the history of politics, which is the claim that having regulation of the…
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Gordon Gekko: What’s worth doing
Cover of Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition) “What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.” —Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.
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Mark Twain: Pause and reflect
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain.
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Henry Kissinger: Made good under pressure
Image via Wikipedia “Remember, a diamond is just a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.” —Dr. Henry Kissinger in Inside Basketball.
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Warren Buffett: Be in a room with no one else
“The best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and just think. And if that doesn’t work, nothing else is going to work.” —Warren Buffett.
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Thomas Sewell: Bureaucracies
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. -Thomas Sewell
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Thomas Sewell: Bureaucracies
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. – Thomas Sewell Embed from Getty Images
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Pablo Picasso: Everything you can imagine is real
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
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Willie Nelson: Positive results
Image by turtlemom4bacon via Flickr “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” ~Willie Nelson, quoted in “Tough Times, Tough People”.
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John Templeton: This time it’s different
“The four most dangerous words in investing are ‘This time it is different’.” – —Sir John Templeton.
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Frederick Leith-Ross: Like sin
Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it. – Frederick Leith-Ross
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George Sand: Ingredients of happiness
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. –George Sand [pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin], novelist (1804-1876). Embed from Getty Images Related…
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Linus Fernandes: Somebody’s got to do the work
“All these management fads are all good! But somebody’s still got to do the work!“ —Linus Fernandes.
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Warren Buffett: Diversification versus concentration
Image by Aaron Friedman via Flickr “Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.” —Warren Buffett.
