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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.
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Chapman Cohen: Fragile Gods
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. -Chapman Cohen, author and lecturer (1868-1954)
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Warren Buffett: Accounting
Accounting numbers are the language of business and as such are of enormous help to anyone evaluating the worth of a business and tracking its progress…
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Euripides: Hundred without a head
Image by Marjorie Lipan via Flickr Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides, Greek playwright. Related articles by Zemanta Greek Tragedy Performed by Dominos (VIDEO) (blippitt.com)
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Jean Rostand: Degrees of killing
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. -Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (1894-1977)
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Aristotle: Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
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Peter Lynch: Guts, not head
“The most important organ in the body as far as the stock market is concerned is the guts, not the head.” – Peter Lynch
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Buckminster Fuller: Great nations
“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.” —Buckminster Fuller http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/120984186
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Warren Buffett: Excitement and expenses
“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.” – Warren Buffett
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John McWhorter: Nothing unique
First, there is nothing unique about English’s “openness” to words from other languages. Second, there is no logical conception of “proper” grammar as distinct from “bad” grammar that people lapse into out of ignorance or laziness. -John McWhorter, linguist, author, and commentator (b. 1965)
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Kurt Vonnegut: Pretense
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut
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Never confuse activity with progress
Never confuse activity with progress
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Carl Sagan: Nuclear arms race
Image via Wikipedia The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. – Carl Sagan , astronomer and writer (1934-1…
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Domain and responsibility of every manager
HRD (Human Resources Development) is the domain and responsibility of every manager. No exceptions.
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Robyn Hitchcock: Everything is a reaction
Everything is a reaction. – Robyn Hitchcock
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Robert Altman: Play
To play it safe is not to play. – Robert Altman
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Peter Lynch: Art, not a science
“As I look back on it now, it’s obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. If stockpicking could be quantified, you could…
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A group is not a team
A GROUP IS NOT A TEAM!
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William Shakespeare: But love is blind
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. – William Shakespeare
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Peter Mere Latham: Different intents
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. -Peter Mere Latham, physician and educator (1789-1875)
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Charlie Munger: Learning machines
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest — sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.” -…
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Isaac Asimov: Evidence
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
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Neil Gaiman: Dangerous
There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. -Neil…
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Robin Williams: Poetry, beauty, romance, love
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.And medicine, law, business, engineering – these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love – these are what we stay…
