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• It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

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  Understanding, Chance, Emotion

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• Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

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  Spiritual, Powerful, Ideas

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• If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

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  Optimistic, Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn

  "John Templeton, billionaire U.S. philanthropist, dies at 95". www.nytimes.com. July 08, 2008.

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• When we have no goal, or when our vision of the goal is obscured, we may lose our sense of purpose. Even when we've prepared ourselves well and have an aptitude for a given activity, poorly directed efforts can rob us of vital energy. We can spend a great deal of our time, money, and other resources running around in circles. Unless we create specific goals that match our purpose in life and unless we keep a clear vision of these goals, we may eventually falter and fail.

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  Running, Circles, Goal

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• Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

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  Life, Kindness, Heart

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• An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.

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  Gratitude, Attitude, Blessing

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.35, Templeton Foundation Press

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• There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets

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  Bulls, Bears, Bull Markets

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• The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

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  New Frontiers, Willing, Persons

  John Marks Templeton (2008). “Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth”, p.188, Templeton Foundation Press

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• There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

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  Failure, Fall, Doors

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• Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

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  Share, Share Price, Values

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• An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.

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  Love, Gratitude, Prayer

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• You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.

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  Successful, Fundamentalist

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• The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?

  John Templeton

  "The Quotable Sir John - On Life and Spirituality". Templeton Press,

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• If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

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  Failing, Ethical, Ifs

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• True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

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  Peace, Relax, Quality

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.41, Templeton Foundation Press

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• I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

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  Spiritual, Optimistic, Focus

  "Money Not the End Goal for Successful Men". Book by Andrew Leckey, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2008.

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• [The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

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  Hurt, Learning, Optimistic

  "Remembering Sir John Templeton" by Jessi Hempel, archive.fortune.com. November 28, 2008.

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• If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

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  Optimistic, Two, Dollars

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• The air we breathe is necessary to keep us alive, but we must continually breathe it out so we can breathe fresh air back into our lungs. God gives us his love, which we can keep in action by breathing it out to others, thus making room in our hearts for a fresh supply of love.

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  God, Heart, Air

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• It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

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  Leadership, Different, Engagement

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• Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.

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  Reality, Unlimited Love, Trying

  John Templeton (2000). “Pure Unlimited Love”, p.40, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

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  Investing, Pessimism, Investment

  "Sir John Templeton" by Martin Adeney, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done by directing one's attention away from the distracting details of the difficulty. From a detached perspective, we may examine the situation in a new or different light and, after exploring information and options, choose an appropriate course of action.

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  Successful, Light, Often Is

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• The only way to experience love is to give it.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Giving

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• Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

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  Helping Others, Self, Trying

  John Templeton (1998). “The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God”, p.95, Templeton Foundation Press

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