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If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution. Steve Jobs – American company founder: Apple (1955-2011), Quotations book 2024
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution. Steve Jobs – American company founder: Apple (1955-2011), Quotations book 2024
To effect real change, you must impart real love. Eyal Shahar – Israeli investor and former intelligence officer, founder and President of Online Trading Academy. (b. 1960)
One of the questions we like to ask [the CEO particularly] is, how do you measure if you’ve been a success managing this business? As you might expect some say the price of the stocks goes up, or we hit our earnings target, or we delivered on all the things the board asked of us. It’s a rare occasion that the CEO articulates an idea that shows he understands the idea of compounding the...
Как ночное небо: чем больше смотришь, тем больше звезд. Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский - русский писатель (1865-1941), из "Иисус Неизвестный", Том первый, Часть I (1932/34), Котировочная книга 2024 It is like the night sky: the longer you gaze at it, the greater is the multitude of the stars. Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky - Russian writer (1865-1941), from "Jesus the Unknown", volume 1,...
Thousands and millions of individuals work, produce and save ... They are prompted by a natural vocation rather than mere thirst for money. The taste, their pride in seeing one's company prosper, establish a reputation, inspire confidence from an ever-growing clientele, their pleasure in extending their facilities and embellishing their offices, constitute an incentive towards progress that...
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. William H. "Bill" Gates - American Software entrepreneur, Microsoft (b. 1955), from "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy" (1999), Quotations book 2024
Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom. David F. Swensen - American investor, endowment fund manager, and philanthropist (1954-2021), from "Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional...
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. L. John Doerr – American investor and leading venture capitalist: chairman of "Kleiner Perkins" (b. 1951), Quotations book 2024
As we look for new answers in the modern age, I for one prefer the tried and tested recipes, like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view; coming together to seek out the common ground; and never losing sight of the bigger picture. Queen Elizabeth II. – British monarch, 1952-2022 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1926-2022), in her...
We would rather suffer the visible costs of a few bad decisions than incur the many invisible costs that come from decisions made too slowly – or not at all – because of a stifling bureaucracy. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (2009), Quotations book 2024
Investing isn't an IQ test; it's a test of character. Jason Zweig – American journalist (b. 1959), in "Do You Know the Difference Between Being Rich and Being Wealthy?" ("The Wall Street Journal", August 8th, 2020), Quotations book 2024
Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), Quotations book 2024
Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking. Bernard M. Baruch - American financier, adviser to several American presidents (1870-1965), from "Baruch: My Own Story" (1957), Quotations book 2024
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov – Russian-born American writer and biochemist (1920-1992), Quotations book 2024
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. Thomas Fuller - English monk and author (1608-1661), from "A Pisgah-Sight Of Palestine And The Confines Thereof", book II, chapter 2) (1650), Quotations book 2024
We look for managers who are owners. Charles T. "Chuck" Akre, Jr. – American value investor, founder, CEO and CIO Akre Capital Management (b. 1942)
An owner-operator culture is the central idea expressed in our portfolio. Boiled down to our essential raison d'être, that’s it. We invest with talented people who have skin in the game. In other words, we invest in businesses where management and/or the board own a significant amount of stock. Chris Mayer – American investor and author (b. 1972), in "Art Imitates the Stock Market: Sixty...
Don't be afraid to admit that you do not know. William M. "Bill" Allen - American businessman, 1945-1968 CEO of Boeing (1900-1983)
May the Lord grant all your requests. The Bible, Psalms 20:5 (NIV) - Quotations book 2023
Life is for participating, not for spectating. Kathrine Virginia "Kathy" Switzer – American marathon runner, author and speaker, 1967 first woman to run the Boston Marathon (b. 1947), Quotations book 2023