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• For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

  Douglas Adams

  Success, New York, War

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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• Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Business, Average

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.

  Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

  Animal, Greatness, Men

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  Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

  Epicurus

  Religion, Atheism, Fear Of Death

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• An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Persons, Intelligent Person

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 30, 2012

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• It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Long, People

  "Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger". Book by Janet Lowe, 2000.

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  All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

  Inspirational, Science, Mind

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, April 16, 2008.

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• As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

  Science, Men, Mind

  "'Das Wesen der Materie' ('The Nature of Matter')". Speech in Florence, Italy,, 1944.

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• All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

  Charlie Munger

  Order, Investing, Values

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

  Frank Sinatra

  Strong Women, Staring, Contests

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• Wisdom is the daughter of experience

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Daughter, Wisdom, Experience

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Psychology, Investing, Economics

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• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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• If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

  Benjamin Graham

  Shopping, Investing, Way

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Diversity

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• Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Cash, Times Of Crisis

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• Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Company, Behinds

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Tickets, Forget

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• While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

  Seth Klarman

  Discipline, Risk, Essentials

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• The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

  Seth Klarman

  Stories, Investing, Behavior

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• Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Revulsion, Stigma

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• Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Calculators, Streaks

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