Mimicking
Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
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Above average
You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), from an innterview with Vishal Khandelwal “When I Met the Legends of Investing – Part 1” (www.safalniveshak.com, October 31, 2012)
Patience beats knowledge
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), quoted in “Value Investing: A Value Investor’s Journey Through the Unknown” (2015), Quotations book 2025
Ideas
Ideas can only be useful if they come to life in the minds of many people. Alexander von Humboldt – German scientist (1769-1859), in a letter to Ludwig Bollmann (Cumaná, Venezuela, October 15th, 1799), Quotations book 2025
Forgiveness
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul L. Boese – American businessman and author (1923-1976)
Future is hope
Iure arbitrari possumus futuram humanitatis sortem in illorum manibus reponi, qui posteris generationibus vivendi et sperandi rationes tradere valent. We can justly consider that the future of humanity lies in the hands of those who are strong enough to provide coming generations with reasons for living and hoping. Second Vatican Council – from the Pastoral Constitution “Gaudium et Spes...
Ödmjuket
Ödmjukhet är att icke jämföra sig. Dag H. A. C. Hammarskjöld – svensk jurist, 1953-61 FN:s generalsekreterare, Nobels fredspris postumt 1961 (1905-1961), från en dagboksanteckning från 29:de juli 1959, publicerad i “Vägmärken” (postumt 1963) To be humble is not to make comparisons. Dag H. A. C. Hammarskjöld – Swedish jurist, 1953-61 UN Secretary-General, Nobel Peace Prize...
Avenir
L’avenir appartient à ceux qui donnent à la génération suivante des raisons d’espérer. attribuè á Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – philosophe, paléontologue, anthropologue et jésuite français (1881-1955), n’a pas pu être vérifiée par l’American Teilhard Association The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. attributed to Pierre Teilhard...
Watchword 2025
But test everything; hold fast what is good. The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (ESV), Quotations book 2025 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...
Life
Love the life you live. Live the life you love. attributed to Bob Marley- born Robert Nesta Marley, Jamaican reggae musician and civil rights activist (1945-1981), Quotations book 2025
Flame of freedom
If we do not keep alive the flame of freedom that flame will go out, and every noble ideal will die with it. It is not by force of weapons but by force of ideas that we seek to spread liberty to the world’ s oppressed. It is not only ideals, but conscience that impels us to do so. Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven – British politician, 1979-90 Prime Minister...
Love
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty. Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo, quia ipsa caritas est animae pulchritudo. Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian theologian and philosopher, one of the four Latin Doctor of Church (354-430), from his sermons to the first letter of...
Easter
The joy of Easter is the joy of eternal life. attributed to Norman Vincent Peale – American clergyman and author (1898-1993), could not be verified by the “Peale Foundation” in Pawling/New York
Storm
Even in fair weather let us not forget the gale, nor in the storm the pilot. Gregory of Nazianzus – cappadocian theologean, 379-381 Archbishops of Constantinople, one of the Three Holy Hierarchs (c. 329-390), from his “oratio 17”, “To the frightened citizenz of Narzianus and the irate prefect” (c. 373), published in “Select Orations”...
Reciprocal
Relationship is based on reciprocity. Martin Buber – Jewish religious philosopher (1878-1965), Quotations book 2025
Sometimes the path only becomes clear when you start walking it
We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we dare to go beyond our limits. Paulo Coelho de Souza – Brazilian writer (b. 1947), in a “Facebook” post from February 2nd, 2017
Goal
The goal no longer lies on the summit, but in the valley where the ascent began. Dr. Carl Gustav Jung – Swiss psychologist (1875-1961), from “The Soul and Death” (1934/1967); published in Volume 8 of the “Collected Works of C.G. Jung”: “The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche” (1969)
Knowledge
What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. wisdom, falsely attributed to Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), could not be verified by the Mark Twain Museum in Hartford, Connecticut
Let God work
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Meister Eckhart – born Eckhart von Hochheim, German mystic (1260-1328), from his sermon “Dum medium silentium tenerent omnia et nox in suo cursu medium iterhaberet ete” (Sermon 101)
Action
Action expresses priorities. wisdom, often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi – Indian politician (1869-1948)