We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We”ve never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)
You have to have the knowledge to enable you to make a very general estimate about the value of the underlying business. But you do not cut it close. That is what Ben Graham meant by having a margin of safety. You don”t try and buy businesses worth $83 million for 80$ million. You leave your self an enormous margin. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire...
Look for the durability of the franchise. The most important thing for me is figuring out how big a moat there is around a business. What I love, of course, is a big castle and a big moat with piranhas and crocodiles. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light”, and there was light. God saw the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. The Bible, Genesis 1-4 (NIV) – Quotations book...
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insight, or inside information. What”s needed is a sound intellectual framework for decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), Quotations book...
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out...
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else consitutes quality. Peter F. Drucker –...
It”s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. Roy E. Disney – American film producer, nephew of Walt Disney (1930-2009), Quotations book 2005
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington – American educator, social reformer and civil rights activist (1856-1915)
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau – American writer (1817-1862), from “Walden” (1854)
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. The Bible, Psalm 118,24 (NIV)
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. Motivation
It ain”t those parts of the bible that I can”t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. attributed to Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910)
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Slogan – often attributed to Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910)
I have found the root of all the trouble to be the neglect of prayer. The first renewal in the society must begin with prayer. Mother Teresa – born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Albanian-born Indian nun and order”s founder, Nobel Peace Prize 1979 (1910-1997)
Entrepreneurs recognize and pursue opportunity without regard to the resources they currently control. They find creative ways to acquire the resources to achieve their goals. Robert Reiss – American radio host, founder of the “The CEO-Show” (b. 1961)
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli – English writer and politician, 1868 and 1874-80 Prime Minister (1804-1881), feam a banquet speech at the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations on June 24th, 1872
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. – American physician and writer (1809-1894), from “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table”, Capitel 11 (1858)
A lie will fly around the whole world while the truth is getting its boots on. attributed to Mark Twain – Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910)
You can”t have a great place to shop without first making it a great place to work. Stew Leonard, Sr. – American entrepreneur, founded Stew Leonard”s super markets (1929-2023)