Changing our thinking
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. following Albert Einstein - German physicist, Nobel prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955)
Month: October 2015
Be yourself
’Become free to be yourself’. Trying to copy others won"t help who you were meant to be. What"s wrong with being that genuine and capable person you really are? Everybody has something unique to contribute. Celebrate yourself and what you have to offer. Dr. Howard Murad - American physician, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, founder of Murad...
Chocolate
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Proverb, seen at Linda Grayson - American entrepreneur (Printwick Papers), often falsely attributed to Charles Dickens
Risk
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. Mark Zuckerberg - American company founder: facebook (b. 1984)
Prioriteis
παρὰ τούτοις εἶναι μᾶλλον πρῶτος ἢ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις δεύτερος. Mallem hic primus esse quam Romae secundus. I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome. Plutarch - Greek writer (c. 45-125), in "Life of Caesar" (c. 96), Quotations book 2016
Priorities
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles...
Perfection
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi - legendary American football coach (1913-1970), Quotations book 2016
Niche
Most leading brokers cannot spare the time and money to research smaller stocks. You are therefore more likely to find a bargain in this relatively under-exploited area of the stock market. James D. "Jim" Slater - British entrepreneur and investor (1929-2015), from "The Zulu Principle: Making Extraordinary Profits from Ordinary Shares" (1992)
Create new
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller - Americanr architect, visionary, designer and philosopher (1895-1983)
Valor
Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10 percent or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count. ... Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion. William H. "Bill" Gross - American Fonds Manager and company founder (b. 1944), from "Everything You’ve Heard About Investing Is Wrong! How to Profit in the Coming Post-Bull Markets" (1997), Quotations...
Possibilities
What is imaginable is also possible. Ludwig Wittgenstein - Austro-British philosopher (1889-1951), from "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" (1912)
Carità
Where charity reigns, happiness governs. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco – Italian Catholic priest and pedagogue (1815-1888), from "Memorie biografiche di San Giovanni Bosco" (book 6, 1907) Dove regna la carità regna la felicità. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco - sacerdote cattolici e pedagogo italiano (1815-1888), de "Memorie biografiche di San Giovanni Bosco" (Benda 6,...
Felicità
Ricordate che felici rende solo il buon operar. Don Giovanni Melchiore Bosco - sacerdote cattolici e pedagogo italiano (1815-1888), de "Memorie biografiche di San Giovanni Bosco" (Benda 12, 1931)
Love
The key to the heart of people will never be our cleverness, but always our love. attributed to Hermann von Bezzel - German Protestant theologian, 1891-1909 director of the deaconess institution Neuendettelsau (1861-1917), Quotations book 2016
Life
The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years. Dr. Edward J. Stieglitz - American gerontologist and author (1899-1958), from "The Second Forty Years" (1947)
Sow and reap
If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue. At...
Customer focus
Our culture emphasizes rapid innovation and prioritizes user engagement over short-term financial results. from the prospectus of facebook, Inc. (2012)
Consumer
An educated consumer is our best consumer. Sy Syms - American businessman and company founder: SYMS clothing store chain (1926-2009)