Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dandamis: Judgment of another
“Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.” —Dandamis, sage (4c BCE).
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Warren Buffett: Watch the playing field
Image via Wikipedia “It’s true, of course, that, in the long run, the scoreboard for investment decisions is market price. But prices will be determined by future earnings. In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.” —Warren Buffett.
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Benjamin Graham: Considerable willpower
Image via Wikipedia “Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.” – Benjamin Graham. Related articles by Zemanta Nike an Example of Graham’s ‘Goodwill Giant’ (seekingalpha.com)
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Josh Billings: Carefully—the second time
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885).
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Ferdinand de Saussure: Time and language
Image via Wikipedia Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. –Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist (1857-1913)
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Benjamin Graham: Demand must be supplied
Image via Wikipedia “Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.” – Benjamin Graham.
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Piet Hein and Joyce Carol Oates: Mankind
Image via Wikipedia “Philosophers / must ultimately find / their true perfection / in knowing all / the follies of mankind / – by introspection.” —Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996). “Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.” — Joyce Carol…
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Alveena Bakshi: Mistakes
Source: http://alveena.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/mistakes/ We will all make them in several takes. What’s there not to forgive but a waste of divine. —Alveena Bakshi
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Nelson Mandela: Shining lights
“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” ~ Nelson Mandela.
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MK (Mahatma) Gandhi: Contraband
Morality is contraband in war. –Mahatma (Mohandas K. )Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Albert Einstein: Ethical behavior
Image via Wikipedia “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” —Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955).
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Peter Lynch: Terrific investment
“If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product such as cigarettes fills the bill), you’ve got a terrific investment.” —Peter Lynch. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/101992247
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MK Gandhi and Cyril Connolly: Obesity and poverty
Image via Wikipedia “Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.” —Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974). Poverty is the worst form of violence. —Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948).
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Charlie Munger: Value investing
“The whole concept of dividing it up into ‘value’ and ‘growth’ strikes me as twaddle. It’s convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.” – Charlie Munger
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George Leslie Brook: Standard English
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Standard English is a convenient abstraction, like the average man. -George Leslie Brook, English professor, author (1910-1987) http://www.wordsmith.org
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Steve Ruggeri: Hunting
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/HP8468-001 When we have exposed the specious reasoning of the hunters’ apologists and stripped their sport of its counterfeit legitimacy, the naked brutality of hunting defines itself: killing for the fun of it. -Steve Ruggeri, former hunter and activist (1949-1998)
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Maya Angelou: Diversity
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. -Maya Angelou, poet (b. 1928, d. 2014)
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Woody Allen: Good excuse
Image via Wikipedia Woody Allen via last.fm “If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.” —Woody Allen, author, actor, and filmmaker (b. 1935).
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Peter Singer: Ethics and its progress
In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human…
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Thoughts
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, and simpler.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900).
