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M. Scott Peck: Love

“Ultimately, love is everything. When we love something it is of value to us, we spend time with it, time enjoying it and taking care of it.” ~M. Scott Peck, quoted in “Inside Basketball”. Embed from Getty Images Related articles by Zemanta Our Finest Moments (onethingiknow.net) Thought For Today (linusfernandes.com) Deliver us from evil, and…
Bruce Lee: Technique

“What is the highest form of technique? To have no technique.” Bruce Lee.
Mark Twain: Full value of joy

“To get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” ~Mark Twain.
Lois McMaster Bujold: People

Image by shinealight via Flickr “My home is not a place, it is people.” ~Lois McMaster Bujold, quoted in “Count Your Blessings”.
Harvey Mackay: Time

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can send it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” ~Harvey Mackay, quoted in “Dads & Daughters”.
Bonnie Jean Wasmund: How you made them feel

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Bonnie Jean Wasmund, quoted in Teens Talk Tough Times.
Dark Knight: Never do it for free

If you’re good at something, never do it for free. – The Dark Knight
David Viscott: Sun from both sides

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides” ~David Viscott, M.D., quoted in “Happily Ever After”.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr: Wind and water power

Image via Wikipedia Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power. –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)
George Bernard Shaw: Ferocity

“When a man hunts a tiger, it’s called sport. When a tiger stalks a man, it’s called ferocity.” —George Bernard Shaw.
John Dryden: Mighty things

Image via Wikipedia “Mighty things from small beginnings grow.” ~John Dryden, quoted in “Teacher Tales” Related articles by Zemanta Quotes & Asides (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Asides (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Asides! (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Some Asides! (linusfernandes.com) The Goal (linusfernandes.com)
Warren Buffett: Friend of the fundamentalist

“We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.” – Warren Buffett.
Arnold Palmer: Opportunity ahead of you

Cover of The Golf Book “Focus not on the commotion around you, but on the opportunity ahead of you.” ~Arnold Palmer, quoted in “The Golf Book“. Related articles by Zemanta What Arnold Palmer Can Teach Today’s Professional Golfers (bleacherreport.com) Tiger Woods Returning To Arnold Palmer Invitational At Bay Hill: Report (huffingtonpost.com)
Thomas Watson: Raise your error rate

“If you want to succeed, raise your error rate.” – Thomas Watson (founder of IBM), when asked about risk taking.
John D MacDonald: Integrity

“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.” ~John D. MacDonald, quoted in “Inside Basketball”
Warren Buffett: Unwisely retained

Image by Pete Zarria via Flickr “Since the long-term corporate outlook changes only infrequently, dividend patterns should change no more often. But over time distributable earnings that have been withheld by managers should earn their keep. If earnings have been unwisely retained, it is likely that managers, too, have been unwisely retained.” – Warren Buffett
Dolly Parton: Put up with the rain

Image via Wikipedia “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” ~Dolly Parton, quoted in “Happily Ever After” Related articles by Zemanta Myths about women investing ” Mostly Economics (linusfernandes.com) Hating rickshaw drivers (linusfernandes.com)
Unknown: Tax on the poor

“Inflation is a tax on the poor.”—Unknown.
Warren Buffett: Large doses of effortless money

Image by Aaron Friedman via Flickr “The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.” http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/new-warren-buffett-cartoon-teaches-kids-investing/19461294/– Warren Buffett
Richard Bach: Mission on earth

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t. –Richard Bach, writer (b. 1936)
Jim Collins: Great nation

Image by krisdecurtis via Flickr If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation. – Jim Collins Related articles by Zemanta Notes from Jim Collins at the Chick-fil-A Leadercast (part I) (christopherscottblog.typepad.com) What’s…
Jeremy Grantham: Volatility

“Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value – that they have stopped playing the asset game. They’re not buying because it’s a company with certain attributes. They’re buying because the price is rising.” —Jeremy Grantham.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: You cannot do a kindness too soon

Image via Wikipedia “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in “Teens Talk Middle School”.
Peter Lynch: Earnings and assets

“What makes a company valuable, and why it will be more valuable tomorrow than it is today… earnings and assets.” – Peter Lynch.
Sydney J Harris: Patriotism

“Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and…
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money often costs too much

“Money often costs too much.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Oscar Wilde: What fiction means

“The good ended happily , and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” —Oscar Wilde, Writer.
Jimi Hendrix: Imitation

I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes. – Jimi Hendrix, musician Embed from Getty Images
Violeta Parra: Starry tears

“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” ~Violeta Parra, quoted in “Tough Times, Tough People”.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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…
Bhavna Bhalla: Silence can’t be manipulated

Thought For Today Words can be manipulated but silence you can’t. – Bhavna Bhalla on Facebook.
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…
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.
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.
Voltaire: Creature of age

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. ” —Voltaire.
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.
Yiddish proverb: Same dough, yes. Same oven, no.

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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
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).
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.
Friedrich W Schelling: Music in space

“Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.” —Friedrich W Schelling, philosopher.
Susan RoAne: Respect for people

“Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.” —Susan RoAne, writer.
Anonymous: Remain competitive

“We should remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.” – Anonymous.
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)
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.
John Wayne: By their balls

“If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” —John Wayne.