Month: July 2015

Courage and success

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker - Austrian-born management expert (1909-2005), Quotations book 2016

Listen

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Bernard M. Baruch - American financier, adviser to several American presidents (1870-1965), Quotations book 2010

Wealth needs patience

Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow. The Bible, Proverbs 13:11 (NIV) - Quotations book 2010

Cosmopolitanism

Common sense tells you that you will find more and sometimes better investment opportunities if you search everywhere in the world. Sir John Marks Templeton - value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2010

Vision and Success

Every vision begins with a mental journey; each success begins with making it reality. Motto - Quotations book 2010

Forgive

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. attributed to Bernard M. Baruch - American financier, adviser to several American presidents (1870-1965), Quotations book 2010

Simplify

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that"s creativity. attributed to Charles Mingus - American jazz musician and composer (1922-1979), Quotations book 2010

Speculation

Speculation...is neither illegal, immortal nor un-American. But is not a game in which Charlie and I wish to play. We bring nothing to the party, so why should we expect to take anything home? Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), Quotations book 2010

Risk-taking

If you sleep on the floor you are not afraid of falling out of the bed. Wisdom - Quotations book 2010

Price and value

Share prices fluctuate more than share values. Sir John Marks Templeton - value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2010

Consistent

Experience is not enough in itself - it has to be weighed, ordered and digested, and we have to draw the right conclusions from it. Michel de Montaigne - French writer and philosopher (1533-1592), Quotations book 2010

Church

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. attributed to Abigail van Buren - born Pauline Esther Friedman, American advice columnist (1918-2013), Quotations book 2010

Candle

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Proverb - Quotations book 2010

Buy and sell

To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate reward. Sir John Marks Templeton - value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2010

Journalists

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves and the better the teacher, the better the student body. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), Quotations book 2010

Watchword 2010

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. The Bible, John 14:1 (NRSV) – Quotations book 2010 The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) - he belonged to the Confessing Church - decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act of civil...

Fear of God

The fear of God is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death. The Bible, Proverbs 14:27 (NIV) - Quotations book 2010

Faith

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. attributed to Charles Henry Parkhurst - American clergyman (1842-1933), Quotations book 2010

Greed

A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live. The Bible, Proverbs 15:27 (NIV) - Quotations book

Past

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana - born Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana, Spanish philosopher (1863-1952), from "Reason in Common Sense" (1906), the first book of "The Life of Reason", Quotations book 2010