Tolerance
You must, therefore, live with your enemies, as you cannot always live with your friends. Alexis de Tocqueville – French publisher and politician (1805-1859), from a letter to Eugène Stoffels, September 16th, 1823, Quotations book 2011
All Quotes
Test
Test everything. Hold on to the good. Paul – The Bible, 1st Thessalonians 5:21 (NIV), Quotations book 2011
Share
There is enough for everybody”s need, but not for everybody”s greed. If everybody shares enough, everybody has enough. Dr. Frank Buchman – American theologian, founder of the Moral Re-Armament (MRA) (1878-1961), Quotations book 2011
Confidence
The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief that it can be done and that you are the one to do it. Felix Dennis – British publisher and company founder (b. 1947), Quotations book 2011
Bargains
The best bargains are not stocks whose prices are down most, but rather those stocks having the lowest prices in relation to possible earning power of future years. Sir John Marks Templeton – value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2011
Imagination
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited. Albert Einstein – German physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955), Quotations book 2011
Success
My success ties with three words: work, work, work. Baron Albert Frère – Belgian financier (1926-2018), from an interview in “Finanz und Wirtschaft” (August 9th, 2006), Quotations book 2011
Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than one”s fear. The timid presume it is the lack of fear that allows the brave to act when the timid do not. But to take action when one is not afraid is easy. To refrain when afraid is also easy. To take action regardless of fear is brave. Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon – born James...
Management questions
What is our Mission? Who is our customer? What does the customer value? What are the results? What is our plan? Peter F. Drucker – Austrian-born American management expert (1909-2005), from “The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask Your Organization” (2008), Quotations book 2011
Start walking
Don”t wait for the light at the end of the tunnel. Stride down there… and light the thing yourself. attributed to Sara Hamilton – Australian cattle breeder and author (1936-2005), Quotations book 2011
Learning
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. attributed to B.B. King – American blues musician (1925-2015), Quotations book 2011
Lifelong Learning
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy, does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you. Nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of...
Life
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. attributed to Josh Billings – born Henry Wheeler Shaw, American Humor writer (1818-1885), Quotations book 2011
Small and big
The strength to decide big matters comes from a continuous reflection upon the small matters. Gerd Bucerius – German publisher (1906-1995), Quotations book 2005 + 2011
Circle of competence
Draw a circle around the businesses you understand and then eliminate those that fail to qualify on the basis of value, good management, and limited exposure to hard times. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), Quotations book 2011
Watchword 2011
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. The Bible, Romans 12:21 (NIV) – Quotations book 2011 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...
Aim high
Gentlemen, make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men”s blood … Make big plans … aim high in hope and work. Daniel H. Burnham – American urban designer for Chicago (1846-1912), Quotations book 2011
Act and dream
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. Pour accomplir des grandes choses il ne suffit pas d”agir il faut rêver.. Anatole France – born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, French poet, Nobel Prize in literature 1921 (1844-1924), in his inaugural speech at the Académie Française on December 24th, 1896
Give
To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man”s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man”s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble. Aristotle – Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.), in “Nicomachean ethics” (350 B.C.), Quotations...