Prosperity
Prosperity is like wealth, but with values. wisdom
Money
Bring capital to the best host
Our job is to pass custody of your investment over at the right price and to the right people. Nick Sleep - British investor and co-founder of Sleep, Zakaria and Company and the IGY Foundation (b. 1968)
Help for Help for self-help
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. Benjamin Franklin - Amerikan politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790), from his attempt to the government "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor" (1766)
Selection criteria
If you could invest in only one of your fellow classmates, who would you choose? If you could buy, say, 10% of the future earnings of just one classmate, who would you choose? What would you look for? Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), freely adapted from a lecture to students at the University of Florida School of Business...
Optimum legacy
[The perfect amount to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), from the article "Should you leave it all to the children?" ("Fortune Magazine", September 29, 1986)
Intelligent investor
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. Jason Zweig - American journalist (b. 1959), in his "Note about Benjamin Graham" in the revised edition of "The Intelligent Investor" (2003), Quotations book 2021
Do good
No-one would remember the good Samaritan if he"d only had good intentions. He had money as well. Dame Margaret Thatcher - British politician, 1979-90 Prime Minister (1925-2013), from a tv interview with Brian Walden for "London Weekend Television" ("Weekend World", January 6th, 1980)
Long-term invest
The big money is not in the buying and selling but in the waiting. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1924)
Vision
Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. Tony Hsieh – American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist, CEO Zappos (1973-2020)
Give
Having, first, gained all you can, and, secondly saved all you can, then give all you can. John Wesley - English preacher (1703-1791), from his sermon "The Use of Money" (1760)
Patience
The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1924)
Leadership
My job is to find money for those people, who know, how this works. Jack Welch - born John Francis Welch jr., legendary American manager: General Electric (1935-2020), Fortune 1999: Manager of the Century
Experience beats money
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money, and the person with the money winds up with the experience. business wisdom - Quotations book 2020
Money is not everything
Money, to some extent, sometimes lets you be in more interesting environments. But it can"t change how many people love you or how healthy you are. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)
Smart
If you’re smart, you don’t need debt. If you’re dumb, it’s poisonous. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), to Salomon Inc’s clients (September 13, 1991)
Make money
The secret of making money is to avoid risks. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), quoted in "The Midas Touch" (2009)
Rational
Investment must be rational; if you don"t understand it, don"t do it. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), quoted in "Forbes" (19. Oktober 1992)
Serenity
One of the hardest things for most investors is to sit by and watch other people make money. Howard S. Marks - American investor, Co-Chairman Oaktree Capital Management (b. 1946)
Деньги
Деньги есть чеканенная свобода. Федор Достоевский - русский писатель (1821-1881), из "Записки из Мёртвого дома" (1862), Цитаты 2005
Fortune
Forming fortune is like a big tree giving shade. Norman Rentrop - German publisher (b. 1957)