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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) Source: http://www.wordsmith.org Related articles by Zemanta The battle for Helen Keller remains compelling (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
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 Related articles by Zemanta Business as the new rocket science. (cultureby.com) Freakonomics 2: What went wrong? (stat.columbia.edu)
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) Source: Wordsmith.org Quote of the day: Humor is…
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…
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 (1907-1988).
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) Related articles by Zemanta Obama praises Gandhi on anniversary of his birth (seattletimes.nwsource.com) Favorite Quotes on Love (itakeoffthemask.com) Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff…
Warren Buffett: Watch the playing field

Image via Wikipedia 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

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 Embed from Getty Images
MK Gandhi and Cyril Connolly

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) http://www.wordsmith.org
James Mackintosh: Opinions

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.–James Mackintosh
Charlie Munger: Value investing

Image via Wikipedia “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…
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