God’s gift
What you are is God”s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God. Proverb
All Quotes
Wall Street
Wall Street hasn”t really changed all that much. It still operates on the principle of taking care of itself first, really big and important customers second, everyone else last. Allan Sloan – American journalist (b. 1944), in “Lessons of the crash of “08”, Fortune Magazine, September 28th 2009
Virtues
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
Enough
Well, I think there”s one big truth that the typical investment counselor will have difficulty recognizing, but the guy who”s investing his own money ought to have no trouble recognizing. If you”re comfortably rich and you”ve got a way of investing your money that is overwhelmingly likely to keep you comfortably rich and someone else finds some rapidly growing...
Philosopher’s stone
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher”s stone. Benjamin Franklin – American politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790), from “Poor Richard”s Almanac” (1736)
Act
To obtain better results than the others, you must do someting different than the others. attributed to Sir John Marks Templeton – value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2016
Gratitude
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. attributed to Sir John Marks Templeton – value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008)
Standard of knowledge
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search. Sir John Marks Templeton – value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008)
Invest
Invest at the point of maximum pessimism. Sir John Marks Templeton – value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008), Quotations book 2005
Expensive words
The five most expensive words in investing are, this time it is different. Sir John Marks Templeton – value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008)
Charity
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace. The Bible, 1. Peter 4:10 (ESV), Quotations book 2026
Doctors
The best doctors in the world are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman. Jonathan Swift – Irsh-born English writer (1667-1745), from “Polite Conversation” (1738)
Du Good
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. attributed to John Wesley – English preacher (1703-1791), known as “John Wesley”s Rule”
Learning
It is impossible to open a book without learning something. wisdom – Quotations book 2022
Simple
Out of the freedom from worry that God”s generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation. John Piper – American pastor and author (b. 1946)
Requirements
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. attributed to Charles Kingsley – English clergyman, theologian and writer (1819-1875)
Difficulties
Difficulties exist to be surmounted. Ralph Waldo Emerson – American writer (1803-1882), from a speech at Cambridge, July 18th, 1867
Starting minds
Mr. Drucker ist one of those writers to whom almost anything can be forgiven because he not only has a mind of his own, but has the gift of starting other minds along a stimulating line of thought. Sir Winston L. Churchill – British politician, 1940-45 and 1951-55 Prime Minister, Nobel Prize in literature 1953 (1874-1965), about Peter F. Drucker, Austrian-born management expert...
Hope
Hope is a waking dream. attributed to Aristotle – Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.), found in Diogenes Laërtius” (Greek historian and doxographer, 3rd century CE) “Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers” (Book 5, The Peripatetics)