Insightful Quotes - Page 13

• When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!

  Walter Schloss

  Sleep, Simple, Night

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• Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my books, often in 140 characters or less! It's a very casual, low-stakes, non-burdensome way of connecting that I think is fun for both the writer and the reader. And there are a lot of clever people out there who have no connection to publishing.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Clever, Fun, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

  Jill Konrath

  Opportunity, Media, Creating

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• The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

  Charlie Munger

  Winning, Games, Investing

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• Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

  Walter White

  Matter, Study, Chemistry

  "Fictional character: Walter White". TV Series "Breaking Bad" ("Pilot", 2008), www.imdb.com. 2008-2013.

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• Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

  Koichi Kawana

  Mean, Simplicity, Achievement

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• I'm saying that I lived too long. You want them to actually miss you [...] I truly believe there exists some combination of words. There must exist certain words in a certain specific order that can explain all of this, but with her I just can't ever seem to find them.

  Walter White

  Believe, Order, Long

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• Skyler, you are the love of my life, I hope you know that. Walter junior, you're my big man. There are... there are going to be some things, things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that, no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.

  Walter White

  Goodbye, Heart, Men

  "Fictional character: Walter White". TV Series "Breaking Bad" ("Pilot", 2008), www.imdb.com. 2008-2013.

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• You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.

  Walter White

  Thinking, Way, Knows

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• The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

  Charlie Munger

  Simplicity, May, Harder

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• If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

  Richard Branson

  Needs, Looks, Employee

  "Richard Branson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Long, Waiting

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• In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Want, Economics

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• The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Causes, Investing

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1990.

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• If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

  Aaron Ross

  Average, Pipeline, Rate

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• Sometimes I feel like I never actually make any of my own. Choices, I mean. My entire life it just seems I never...you know, had a real say about any of it. Now this last one, cancer...all I have left is how I choose to approach this.'

  Walter White

  Real, Cancer, Mean

  "Breaking Bad: Gray Matter". 2008.

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• Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

  Adrian Davis

  Powerful, Sales Person, Numbers

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• Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'

  Richard Branson

  Ideas, Work Out, Boss

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• The Virgin brand is not a product like Coca-Cola or Famous Grouse whisky. it's an attitude and a way of life to many. That attitude is about giving customers a better time and better value in a fun way that embraces life and seeks to give the customers something new.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Attitude, Giving

  "There is no such thing as failure". Interview with Alexander Gorlach and Thore Barfuss, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Two, Views

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.160, John Wiley & Sons

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• Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Powerful, Business

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.

  Walter White

  Years, Choices, Suffering

  "Breaking Bad". TV Series, Episode: "End Times ", www.imdb.com. 2008–2013.

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• I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.

  Walter White

  Morning, Sleep, Years

  "Breaking Bad". TV Series, Episode: "Better Call Saul", www.imdb.com. 2008-2013.

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• Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.

  Walter White

  Names, World, One Thing

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• It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

  Walter White

  Cancer, News, Diagnosis

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