‘When I am asked, “What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?” I reply: “Absolute poverty.” This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.’
—Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland (b. 21 May 1944) .
“Ideally, we like to invest in growing companies with a sustainable competitive advantage and attractive economics in combination with a management team that will intelligently redeploy or redistribute excess capital. In a world where it is difficult to find good ideas, our style is to diligently and patiently search the world for fat pitches, and then swing on the rare opportunity when we think the odds are in our favor. When times are good, we hope to invest in ideas that can double over three years. Given that we are not favorably disposed to ‘cheating’ on either valuation or quality, when ideas are harder to come by, as they are now, we are more likely to have higher than average cash levels. ”
—Peter Kinney and Mark Landecker, Acacia Capital (April 2007).
“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice humility, is boundless.”
—Eric Hoffer, The True Believer.
“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.”
—Simon Sinek.
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
—Plato.
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
—George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968).
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
—Honore de Balzac.
