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• Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market your game is to buy and hold until you believe that the bull market is near its end. To do this you must study general conditions and not tips or special factors affecting individual stocks.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Believe, Swings, Games

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• Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

  Felix Dennis

  Long, People, Risk

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.49, Penguin

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• Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic.

  Oliver Bierhoff

  Christian, Football, Team

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• For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Independence, Foundation, Essentials

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.44, Full Moon Publications

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• First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.

  Barry Richards

  Player, Important, Facts

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• Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Purpose, Determine

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Ignorance, Political, Important

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• Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

  Warren Buffett

  Minorities, Littles, Earning

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• Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

  Warren Buffett

  Minorities, Investment, Used

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• The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

  Warren Buffett

  Past, Earning, Assets

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• In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Years, Effort

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• Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.

  Erich Fromm

  Caring, Men, Challenges

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• Earlier today, John McCain was in the news. John McCain gave his first press conference since the election. And he said, 'For a lot of people, Sarah Palin was an energizing factor during the campaign.' Unfortunately for McCain, those people are called Democrats.

  Conan O'Brien

  People, Campaigns, News

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• Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, People, Nuclear

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Physicians, Three

  Epidemics I

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• Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Self, Class, Discipline

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• Time is the most important factor in determining market movements and by studying past price records you will be able to prove to yourself history does repeat and by knowing the past you can tell the future. There is a definite relation between price and time. By studying time cycles and time periods you will learn why market tops and bottoms are found at certain times, and why resistance levels are so strong at certain times, and prices hold around them. The most money is made when fast moves and extreme fluctuations occur at the end of major cycles.

  William Delbert Gann

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

  John McCain

  Space, Exploration, Certain

  "NASA likely to weather political scrutiny" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2003.

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• The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

  James C. Collins

  Humility, Leader, Great Leader

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• The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Spiritual, World, Common

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• My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity; at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.

  Jello Biafra

  Attitude, Real, Heart

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• I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Thinking, Compassion

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• Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Cases

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Adversity, Important

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