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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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)
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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…
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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.
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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).
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Eve Babitz: Grown up
By the time I’d grown up, I naturally supposed that I’d be grown up. – Eve Babitz.
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A H Weiler: Nothing is impossible
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. – A. H. Weiler.
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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
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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).
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Bob Dylan: Myself
I can only be myself, whoever that is. – Bob Dylan.
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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…
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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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James Mackintosh: Opinions
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.–James Mackintosh
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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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Egyptian proverb: Perfect beauty?
A beautiful thing is never perfect – Egyptian proverb
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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).
