Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) (Investor’s Business Daily, January 22, 1999)
If the efficient market theory is correct, there is no possibility, except …
If the efficient market theory is correct, there is no possibility, except a random chance, that any person or group could outperform the market, and certainly no chance that the same person or group could consistently do so. Warren Buffett
A modest man, who has much to be modest about. Winston Churchill …
A modest man, who has much to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965 On Clement Atlee
I am of the opinion that race is a myth, invented by …
I am of the opinion that race is a myth, invented by Europeans in the 15th century, and the policies of government mandated affirmative action today are not only ineffective, they are again immoral. Culture is real, individuals are no myth, racism (and poverty, war, hunger, violence – even guns, or stupidity, value, or choice) cannot ever be eliminated by government, but especially not by racial preference. Richard Boddie
Bucknell University, class of 1961, self-described ‘black man’, Bucknell World, May 2003
People who have a financial stake in the country are a little …
People who have a financial stake in the country are a little more careful in the way they vote. President Gerald Ford
Commenting on the fact that many Baby Boomers have their retirement nest eggs in mutual funds, in Barron’s August 18, 1997
G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: ‘Go on writing plays, my …
G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: ‘Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say to his secretary, `Is there a play from Shaw this morning?’ and when she says `No,’ he will say, `Well, then we’ll have to start on the rubbish.’ And that’s your chance, my boy.’ George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to …
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all, it makes it possible for us to make up our mind and arrange to live sensibly, truthfully, and always with a sense of our own limitations.If men believe, as I do, that this present earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to make heaven of it. Jean Riley Anderson
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock …
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated …
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincon’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. The Atlanta Journal
1990s
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower …
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field. William Shakespeare
Rom & Jul, Act iv, Sc.4