Valuable Quotes - Page 18

• What valuable company is nobody building?

  Peter Thiel

  Building, Company

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.21, Crown Business

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• Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Long, Focus

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• More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

  Nichiren

  Heart, Treasure, Body

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• For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of development...both Marine Ecosystems and Global Change and Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans are valuable troves that could profitably be mined, and any academic bookshelf would wear them well.

  Carl Safina

  Art, Ocean, Book

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• When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.

  Nate Saint

  Weight, Flight, Unnecessary

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• The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

  Isaac Barrow

  Happiness, Order, Preparation

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• If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

  Peter Lynch

  Cds, Investing, Today

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• Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

  Lee Wulff

  Fishing, Games, Trout

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  College, Car, House

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• I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.

  M. C. Escher

  Thinking, Ideas, Facts

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• Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Taken, Thinking

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• Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.

  Drew Houston

  Jobs, Ideas, Worst Case Scenario

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• Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Giving, Needs, Credit

  "The Moguls". Book by Norman J. Zierold, 1969.

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• An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

  Eli Whitney

  Invention, Inventor, Worthless

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• Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Emotion

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• The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.

  Alan Plater

  Children, Creativity, Assets

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• The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

  Alfred Marshall

  Money, People, Investing

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.469, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.

  Pal Benko

  Ignorance, Player, Errors

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• At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

  Catherine Bertini

  Country, Tools, Behaviour

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• The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

  Ardant du Picq

  Military, Battle, Use

  Sun Tzu, Einhard, Julius Caesar, Ardant du Picq, Niccol˜ Machiavelli (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.402, Lulu.com

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• A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother -- she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them -- for maternity implies suffering -- is infinitely more valuable in God's sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Mother, Spiritual, Moon

  "Alice Von Hildebrand on Feminism and Femininity". Zenit Interview, zenit.org. November 26, 2003.

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• An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor.

  Leon G. Cooperman

  Investing, Serious, Investment

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• It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Cells, Would Be, Fuel

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• It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

  Vicesimus Knox

  Inspirational, Book, Happens

  Vicesimus Knox (1805). “Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. ...”, p.47

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• Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

  Joseph Hume

  Land, Spots, Produce

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