Just thought I would start a thread for people’s favorites - - I’m sure there are some good ones out there… “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” - Calvin Coolidge “Maintaining the status quo means lagging behind” - Wu Ho Su, Pioneer of Taiwanese Business Methods
get obsessed and stay obsessed - john irving
“When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered, that I had reabsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.” - Dwight Schrute
“The worth of a person is what he knows” - Amir al-Mu’minin “There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don’t know where the market is headed, and those who don’t know that they don’t know. Then again, there is a third type of investor - the investment professional, who indeed knows that he or she doesn’t know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.” - Bernstein, William
Warren Buffett sagely noted that if an investor is not that good, he shouldn’t use leverage, whereas if he is good, it is not needed.
Dick Fuld: “Do we have some stuff on the books that would be tough to get rid of? Yes,” he said last summer. “Is it going to kill us? Of course not.”
“Risk means that more things can happen than will happen” -Elroy Dimson
A bear market is when stocks return to their rightful owners.
"And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn’t happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don’t even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That’s what’s so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What’s “the point of living if you don’t have a dick?” -Donnie Darko “Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.” -Erwin Rommel
Chuck, sometime I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
“I could prove God statistically.” - George Gallup “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” - Warren Buffett “Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.” - Miles Davis
“It is when the tide goes, that we know who was swimming naked” -Warren Buffet
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. - Keynes
“Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” Yogi Berra
I bring the RUCKUS to the ladies! - Leon from Curb Your Enthusiasm
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.(Martin Luther King, jr.) " Dont ever let somebody tell you, you cant do something. you gotta dream, you gotta protect it. People cant do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you cant do it. You want something, go get it." -Gardner (w.smith) Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM! (william wallance) from Braveheart
"More jobs means fewer people looking for work. Means it’s harder to find good people to fill those jobs. Means you gotta raise wages to get them. Means inflation goes up. You got it? No, I didn’t think so. That’s why I’m doing what I’m doing and you’re handing out junk mail. " Also Frank Slaughtery: You know, you’re wearing a striped shirt with a striped tie, you know that, right? Phelan: Yeah, I do it for the ladies. Frank Slaughtery: Oh - the ladies ever tell you that you look like a fcking optical illusion? Both 25th Hour
Imagination consoles you for what you cannot be, good humor consoles you for what you are
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor E. Frankl The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. - Daniel Goleman
"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”~ Michael Jordan