Consistently Quotes - Page 20

• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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• In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Climate, World

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• No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Groups

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• Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

  Sara Sheridan

  Class, Scotland, World

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• Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.

  Rory Vaden

  Discipline, Choices, Easy

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• It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Diplomacy

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• When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

  Curtis Jackson

  Worst Situation, Energy, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

  Thomas Mallon

  Sailing, Fiction, World

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• The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.

  E. M. Forster

  Sex, Character, Names

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• If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones
  Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
  Because it dissolves in water.

  W. H. Auden

  Afterlife, Water, Landscape

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.257, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Logic, Wells

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• I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

  Burton Malkiel

  Past, Example, Investing

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• We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Making Money, Approach

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Clarity

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.107, Penguin

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• The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. Yet market timing appears to be increasingly embraced by mutual fund investors and the professional managers of fund portfolios alike.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Ideas, Investing

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.28, John Wiley & Sons

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• This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

  Alan Greenspan

  People, Abnormal, May

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• The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.

  Marilyn C. Nelson

  Jobs, Smart, Team

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• It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Exercise, Thinking

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• Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, People, Giving

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 09, 2015.

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• Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Wise, Wisdom, Decision

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• The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Light, Speak

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• My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

  Michael Giacchino

  Growing Up, Crazy, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

  Jeff Cooper

  Optimistic, Fool, Exit

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• Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

  Albert Bandura

  Outcomes, Behavior, Self Efficacy

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

  Keith Rabois

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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