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)
When we lower prices, we go against the math that we can do, which always says that the smart move is to raise prices. Jeffrey P. “Jeff” Bezos – American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), in his letter to the shareholders (2005)
I would rather be certain of a good result than hopeful of a great one. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), in his letter to Berkshire Shareholders (1996)
Figure out what you”re good at and play that game. You don”t have to be good at everything. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. attributed to Malcolm X zugeschrieben – born Malcolm Little; American Muslim preacher and civil rights activist (1925-1965)
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. Guy Kawasaki – American company founder, venture capitalist, author and marketing evangelist (b. 1954), in “The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything” (2004)
Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere. Carlo Goldoni – drammaturgo e librettista italiano (1707-1793), da “La Pamela”, Act 1, Scena 14 (1750) The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. Carlo Goldoni – Italian playwright and librettist (1707-1793), from “La Pamela”, Act 1, Scene 14...
I think that by concentrating on smaller companies, you improve your chances of catching the next wave. Ralph Wanger – American fund manager (b. 1934)
Chances are, things have changed enough so that whatever made you a success thirty years ago doesn”t work anymore. Ralph Wanger – American fund manager (b. 1934)
If you believe you or anyone else has a system that can predict the future of the stock market, the joke is on you. Ralph Wanger – American fund manager (b. 1934), from “A Zebra in Lion Country” (1999)
Life always gets harder toward the summit – the cold increases, the responsibility increases. Friedrich Nietzsche – German philosopher (1844-1900), from “The Antichrist” (1895)
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. E. M. Bounds – American writer and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South (1835-1913), from “Power Through Prayer” (1910)
One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach – Austrian writer (1830-1916), from her “Aphorisms”, published in “Gesammelte Schriften”, book 1 (1893)
The more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. Glosse, gloss on views of George Santayana – born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, Spanish-born American philosopher (1863-1952), could not be verified by experts at the Santayana Edition
It is very hard to lie, if one doesn”t know the truth. Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot. Péter Esterházy – Hungarian writer (1950-2016), from “Harmonia Caelestis” (2000)
Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. John C. Bogle – American author and founder of The Vanguard Group and the world’s first index mutual fund (b. 1929)
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time. Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), from “Pudd”nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins” (Chapter VI, 1884)
Good leadership is characterized by two things: honesty and modesty, both are difficult, so there are so few good leaders. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Heathaway (b. 1930)
Menneskets Storhed afhænger ene og alene af Guds-Forholdets Energie i ham. The greatness of a man depends simply and solely on the energy of the God-relation in him. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard – Danish Protestant theologian an philosopher (1813-1855), known as one of the most important academics in Denmark, from “The Concept of Anxiety” (“Begrebet Angest”, published...