Investing Quotes - Page 39

• Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Beautiful, Heart, Self

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

  Warren Buffett

  May, Deals, Forecasts

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• Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Two, Long

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• [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Gold, Would Be

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• Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Ignorance, Littles

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• You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, People, Empowering

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• There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

  Ken Kaess

  Business, Gains, Share

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• The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Data, Doe

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.11, Routledge

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  Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.

  Tim Blixseth

  Life, Determination, Assets

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• There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

  Jim Bush

  Educational, Data, Skills Training

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• I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Ambition, Opportunity

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• Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wisdom, Children, Hypocrite

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.334, Leo Tolstoy

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• Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

  George Soros

  Government, Democracy, World

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

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• Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away

  Jim Cramer

  Stupid, Saving, Doe

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• Investors have very short memories

  Roman Abramovich

  Memories, Saving, Investment

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• The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

  Bill Gates

  People, World, Charity

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• Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Men, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Reform, Moments

  Alexis de Tocqueville, François Furet, Francoise Melonio (1998). “The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text”, p.222, University of Chicago Press

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• To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, America, Diversity

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• A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

  Donald Trump

  Technology, Ice, Next Day

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• When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Entrepreneur, Liberty

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• You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

  Carl Icahn

  Friendship, Dog, Business

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• I was working full time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy. At one point a month had gone by, and Marc - my then boyfriend, now husband, and I hadn't gone out on a date. I was like, I don't want to be this person. I want to be a person who cares where she's investing her time and energy. And I want to be a good wife, daughter, and friend.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "Think You Know Chelsea Clinton? Think Again" by Genevieve Roth, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2013.

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• If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

  Donna Mills

  Mother, Daughter, Age

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