Factors Quotes - Page 18

A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following two factors: The probability that the investment you chose will preserve your capital over the time you intend to invest your funds. The probability the investments you select will outperform alternative investments for this period.

David Dreman

Loss, Two, Risk

David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.

Benjamin Graham

Stress, Character, Important

Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre Dodd (1934). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.

Carmen Reinhart

Keys, Government, Giving

"This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Book by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009.

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You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.

Charlie Munger

Wind, Rifles, Elements

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Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

Farah Diba

Country, Party, Iran

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3.

Joel Greenblatt

Years, Goal, Earning

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... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.

Charlie Munger

Important, Experts, Share

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An investment decision in the common stock of a company frequently involves a whole lot of factors interacting ... the one thing that causes the most trouble is when you combine a bunch of these together, you get this lollapalooza effect.

Charlie Munger

Decision, Together, Causes

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When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

Ferran Adria

People, Important, Avant Garde

"Ferran Adrià Discusses His Future". Interview with Sara Bonisteel, www.epicurious.com.

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I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

Zig Ziglar

Names, People, Feel Good

"Zig On... Don't Miss This Opportunity" by Zig Ziglar on his web site, May 25, 2010.

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Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor.

Steve McConnell

Motivation, People, Stronger

Steve McConnell (1996). “Rapid Development”, p.249, Microsoft Press

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Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.

Masaaki Imai

Mean, Practice, Good Man

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Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.

Max Anders

Love Is, Use, Permanence

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On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

Ludwig von Mises

Government, Needs, Satisfaction

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All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Quality, Levels, Saving

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Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

Marvin Olasky

Biblical, Giving, Mind

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We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

Renee Fleming

Unique, Self, Voice

Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.181, Penguin

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A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

John Maynard Keynes

Strong, Roots, Differences

John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.138, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear...you are the determining factor.

Neale Donald Walsch

Voice, Waiting, May

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Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top

Edmund Hillary

Strong, Motivation, Important

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Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

Terence McKenna

Drug, Psychedelic, Evolution

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I never was a cheerleader. I'm an athlete. I'm probably not coordinated enough to be a cheerleader but that doesn't matter. I've always wanted to compete. And if I compete, I want to win. I was born competitive and that's in my blood. Whatever car I'm in, whatever series I'm running, whatever track I'm racing I want to be a factor. I want people to know that Shawna Robinson was there.

Shawna Robinson

Running, Athlete, Winning

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Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.

Samael Aun Weor

War, Hatred, Ego

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I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?

Taylor Swift

Home, Thinking, Wish

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However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

Soren Kierkegaard

Generations, How To Love, Humans

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