Insightful Quotes - Page 17

• I'm not leaving until you say yes.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Leaving

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• Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

  Dave Ramsey

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2017

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• The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Affair, Should

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• The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Moving, Ideas, Numbers

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• 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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• We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Waiting, Investing

  "Wait: The Art and Science of Delay". Book by Frank Partnoy, 2012.

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• We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Swim, Investing

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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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• 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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• We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

  Charlie Munger

  Believe, Ideas, Investing

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

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Want, Economics

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• Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Investing, Riches, Frugality

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...: Posthumous and other writings”, p.59

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

  Koichi Kawana

  Mean, Simplicity, Achievement

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

  Bruce Rasmussen

  Successful, Leader, Tactics

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• Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Change, Inspiring, Wise

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• He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Hands, Secret, Selling

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