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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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Karl A Hakkarainen: No vacation goes unpunished
No vacation goes unpunished. – Karl A. Hakkarainen
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Only the stupid are sure
Only the stupid are sure.
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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
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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).
