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Alvin Toffler: Illiterate of 21st century

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin Toffler Source: DNA Newspaper dated 2 April, 2010. Related articles by Zemanta Unlearn Your MBA (mootbox.com) Relearning the Same Lessons (faithallen.wordpress.com) On Learning and Unlearning (24hourparadigm.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) Investing…
Warren Buffett: Cheery consensus

Image via Wikipedia “The future is never clear, and you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.” —Warren Buffett.
Arindam Chaudhuri: Economics

Image via Wikipedia Economics is the study of human happiness in a society. – Arindam Chaudhuri,The Great Indian Dream, Restoring Pride To A Nation Betrayed… The Great Indian Dream Related articles by Zemanta arindam chaudahry a visit to ahmedabad (slideshare.net)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Communication

Embed from Getty Images Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after Anne Morrow Lindbergh Source: Hindustan Times dated 31 March 2010. Related articles by Zemanta Searching…. (linusfernandes.com) A Great Failure (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
Warren Buffett: Process and proceeds

“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.” —Warren Buffett
Albert Einstein: Hazily crazy

” A question that sometimes drives me hazy; am I or the others crazy?” —Albert Einstein.
Oscar Wilde: Form of ugliness

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” —Oscar Wilde.
Charles Munger: Tuning out

“Warren (Buffett) and I have skills that could easily be taught to other people… But Warren and I are better at tuning out the standard stupidities.” — Charles Munger.
Warren Buffett: Right-thinking duck

“In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.” —Warren Buffett.
John Ray: In his own ink

Image via Wikipedia “He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.” —John Ray, naturalist (1627-1705).
Daniel Boorstin: Education

Image via Wikipedia Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. – Daniel Boorstin, American historian. Related articles by Zemanta On Knowledge… (newscred.com) Why blog? (condalmo.wordpress.com)
Daniele Vare: Diplomacy

Image via Wikipedia Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. – Daniele Vare, Italian Writer. Source: DNA India , Newspaper dated 21st March, 2010.
Anonymous: Love and sex

“Men often give love for sex, Women often give sex for love.” —Anonymous.
James Fallows: Angry letters

Image via Wikipedia “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” —James Fallows “When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.” —Mark Twain.
Warren Buffett: Cash

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/137301411″ “Holding a certain portion of one’s wealth in cash is advisable. One won’t have to be dependent on the kindness of strangers. One sleeps well.” – —Warren Buffett.
Michel de Montaigne: Talking nonsense

Cover of Montaigne: Complete Essays “No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly.” —Michel De Montaigne.
George Bernard Shaw: Truth

Image by thomwisdom via Flickr “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.” —George Bernard Shaw.
George Polya: Pedantry against mastery

Image via Wikipedia Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry… To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the…
Michael Jackson: Lies run sprints

“Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.” –Michael Jackson Source: Quotes, Reader’s Digest, March 2010 Related articles by Zemanta Jackson family latest: who stun-gunned Blanket? (guardian.co.uk) Sprint’s Never-Ending Marathon (online.wsj.com) Exclusive: Michael Jackson’s Bodyguards on His Finances and Family (abcnews.go.com)
John W Gardner: Plumbing and philosophy

Image via Wikipedia The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy; neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. – John W. Gardner Source: Reader’s Digest March 2010. Related articles by Zemanta…
Gen Michel Aoun: Freedom

“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” —Gen Michel Aoun. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/486225399 Quote of the day: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” —Mark Twain.
Helen Keller: Tolerance

Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr “The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Helen Keller, author and lecturer (1880-1968).
Eve Babitz: Grown up

By the time I’d grown up, I naturally supposed that I’d be grown up. – Eve Babitz.
A H Weiler: Nothing is impossible

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. – A. H. Weiler.
G. K. Chesterton: Eager and tired

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. – G. K. Chesterton
Piet Hein: Twin mystery

Twin Mystery. To many people artists seem / undisciplined and lawless. / Such laziness, with such great gifts, / seems little short of crime. / One mystery is how they make / the things they make so flawless; / another, what they’re doing with / their energy and time. –Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996).
Peter Lynch: Bonds and stocks

“When you buy shares in a company, if it manages to produce profits, you are a partner in those profits. On the other hand, if you buy an IBM bond, after 20 years, the company will repay you the money and say ‘thank you very much.’ It will pay you the interest, but it will…
Andre Berthiaume: Masks

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. -Andre Berthiaume, novelist (b. 1938) Source: Wordsmith.org Quote of the day: Never answer a critic, unless he’s right. – Bernard M. Baruch Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth. Archimedes…
Theodore Levitt: Absence of complaints

“One of the surest signs of a bad or declining relationship is the absence of complaints from the customer. Nobody is ever that satisfied , especially not over an extended period of time.” —Theodore Levitt.
Kenneth G. Wilson: It depends

“Often the accurate answer to a usage question begins, “It depends.” And what it depends on most often is where you are, who you are, who your listeners or readers are, and what your purpose in speaking or writing is.” —Kenneth G. Wilson, usage writer (b. 1923). Quote of the day: “Humor is also a…
Mark Twain: Only the wisdom

Image via Wikipedia “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there — lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she…
Robert A. Heinlein: Spoiled child

“Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” —Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author.
Warren Buffett: Avoid difficult problems rather than solve them

“Easy does it. After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step…
Bob Dylan: Myself

I can only be myself, whoever that is. – Bob Dylan.
Charlie Munger: Conservative investing

Image via Wikipedia “It’s in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There’s no system to avoid bad markets. You can’t do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way…
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).
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.
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)
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).
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)
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.
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…
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
Nelson Mandela: Shining lights

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” ~ Nelson Mandela.
MK (Mahatma) Gandhi: Contraband

Morality is contraband in war. –Mahatma (Mohandas K. )Gandhi (1869-1948)
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).
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
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).
James Mackintosh: Opinions

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.–James Mackintosh
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