Invest Capital
Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. The Bible, Ecclesiastes 11:2 (NIV), Quotations book 2025
All Quotes
Understand
By finally understanding the problem and calling it by the right name, we will be able to pave a better route forward. Prof. Claudia Goldin – Professor of Economics at Harvard University and economic historian, Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences 2023 (b. 1946), from “Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity” (2021)
Knowlegde helps
Even a blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they grow in oak forests. David Ogilvy – legendary British advertising executive and entrepreneur (1911-1999), from “Confessions of an Advertising Man” (1963), Quotations book 2025
Hope
Remember that hope is a powerful weapon even when all else is lost. Nelson Mandela – South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, 1994-99 president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013), from a letter sent to his wife, Winnie, while he was incarcerated (2 April 1969), Quotations book 2025
Great Generation
Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Nelson Mandela – South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, 1994-99 president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013), from a speech to the G8 leaders at London’s Trafalgar Square (3 February 2005)
Defeat fear
There are things to be frightened of. But what you have to do is put that fear into a little box and put it in the corner of the room and then you can have your day. Sir Salman Rushdie – Indian-born British author (b. 1947), in an interview with Denis Scheck at the 75th Frankfurt book fair (“Frankfurter Buchmesse Spezial: Literaturgala”, 21. October 2023), Quotations book...
Time
Time is precious. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back. Harvey Mackay – American entrepreneur and author of the 2005 New York Times N° 1 bestseller “Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” (b. 1932), from a “Facebook” message (January28,...
Habits
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. Harvey Mackay – American entrepreneur and author of the 2005 New York Times N° 1 bestseller “Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” (b. 1932), from “Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top” (1998), Quotations book 2025
Wealth
I love wealth because it gives the power of helping the miserable. Blaise Pascal – French mathematician and philosopher (1623-1662), from fragment 931/550, published in “Thoughts, fragment and letters by Blaise Pascal” (“Pensées, Fragmens et Lettres de Blaise Pascal”, 1844) J’aime les biens parce qu’ils donnent le moyen d’en assister les misérables. Blaise Pascal...
Life-long Learning
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
Spread knowledge
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
Together
Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much. Helen Keller – American deaf-blind writer (1880-1968), from a hoily, published in “Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy” (1980), Quotations book 2025
Important, but not measurable
You’ve got a complex system and it spews out a lot of wonderful numbers that enable you to measure some factors. But there are other factors that are terribly important, [yet] there’s no precise numbering you can put to these factors. You know they’re important, but you don’t have the numbers. Well practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the...
Lesson for life
You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing. John W. Gardner – American politician and philanthropist, 1965-1968 Secretary of Health, Education,...
Strangers become friends
There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met. Irish proverb, based in the poem “Faith” (1913) by Edgar A. Guest (British-American poet, 1881-1959)
Sólo Dios Basta
Nada te turbe, nada te espante, todo se pasa; Dios no se muda. La paciencia todo lo alcanza. Qien a Dios tiene nada le falta. Sólo Dios Basta. Teresa de Àvila – mística y monja católica española (1515-1582), del poema “Nada te Turbe”, que se encontró junto a ella tras su muerte y que ahora forma parte de los “Cantos de Taizé”, Libro de citas 2017 Let nothing...
More blessed to give than to receive
It is more blessed to give than to receive. The Bible, Acts 20:35 (NIV), Quotations book 2025
Know your limits
No matter how skillfully you climb a tree, you can never get higher than its crown. Haruki Murakami – Japanese writer (b. 1949), from “The City and Its Uncertain Walls”, part III (“街とその不確かな壁”, 2023), Quotations book 2025
Responsible
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. wisdom
Cost awareness
Our experience has been that the manager of an already high-cost operation frequently is uncommonly resourceful in finding new ways to add to overhead while the manager of a tightly-run operation usually continues to find additional methods to curtail costs, even when his costs are already well below those of his competitors. Warren Buffett – American value investor, long-time Chairman...