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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. Embed from Getty Images Related articles by Zemanta Quotes & Some Asides! (linusfernandes.com) Change (linusfernandes.com) Who Is A Gentleman? (linusfernandes.com)
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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. Related articles by Zemanta A Cross Of Gold (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com) British Austerity (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
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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” Related articles by Zemanta If only. (lookingcloser.org)
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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 (1533-1592) Related articles by Zemanta In praise of… Casper the commuting cat (guardian.co.uk) How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty…
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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
Image via Wikipedia “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~Mark Twain, quoted in “Loving Our Cats” Related articles by Zemanta 100 Years Later, Mark Twain Still an Icon (patspapers.com) Why Mark Twain Still Matters (npr.org) Mark Twain Quiz: How Well Do You Know The Legend? (huffingtonpost.com)
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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
Thought For Today 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” Related articles by Zemanta Words to live by (writteninc.blogspot.com) Quotes & Asides (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Asides (linusfernandes.com) Quotes & Some Asides! (linusfernandes.com) a Thought for Today…
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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
Embed from Getty Images “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 Related articles…
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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. Related articles by Zemanta Attracting Success (the-secret-resource.com) Live Your Destiny (the-secret-resource.com)
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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 Related articles by Zemanta How the major stock…
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