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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
Image by Getty Images via Daylife “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
Investing Quote “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” – Peter Lynch Related articles by Zemanta Quotes Uncovered: Hindsight and Crowds (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com) 4 Beginning Investing Tips from a 14 year-old (ybpguide.com) How to use P/E ratio to evaluate investment (richdadobservations.blogspot.com) The Goal (linusfernandes.com) Portfolio Management & Corporate…
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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) Related articles by Zemanta Happy Birthday, Susan B.…
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Donald Rumsfeld: Unknown unknowns
Image via Wikipedia 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. Related articles by Zemanta Rumsfeld’s Rules…
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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) Finance Quote What’s worth doing is worth doing for money. – Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Related articles by Zemanta Michael Douglas: Gordon Gekko’s Take on Goldman Sachs (blogs.wsj.com) Great Scene: “Wall Street” (gointothestory.com) Release Date for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gets Pushed (pastemagazine.com)
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Mark Twain: Pause and reflect
Thought For Today Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain. Related articles by Zemanta 100 Years Later, Mark Twain Still an Icon (patspapers.com) Why Mark Twain Still Matters (npr.org) Quotes & Asides! (linusfernandes.com) a Thought for Today (linusfernandes.com)
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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” Related articles by Zemanta ITIL – Service Strategy (linusfernandes.com) Conflict Of Interest (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote! (linusfernandes.com) Willie Nelson and Larry King (stillisstillmoving.com) The Tao of Willie, by Willie Nelson…
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John Templeton: This time it’s different
Investing Quote “The four most dangerous words in investing are ‘This time it is different’.” – Sir John Templeton Related articles by Zemanta John Templeton’s Lost Memo (benzinga.com) Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. proposes streamlining fund line-up in Canada (newswire.ca) Just Quotes! (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) a Thought for Today (linusfernandes.com) Investing Quote (linusfernandes.com) Change…
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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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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. Related articles by Zemanta The Balanced Scorecard & Project Management (linusfernandes.com) The Goal (linusfernandes.com) Portfolio Management & Corporate Strategy (linusfernandes.com) ITIL – Service Strategy (linusfernandes.com)
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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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