Intelligent Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Safety, Challenges, Secret

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.

  Benjamin Graham

  Significant Change, Sound, Climate

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.4, Harper Collins

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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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• Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

  Charlie Munger

  Jobs, Investing, World

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• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Investment Success

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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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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• As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Weight, Roulette

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2008). “Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett”, p.701, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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• Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Found Happiness, People

  ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1970). “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM”

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• Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Stupid, Animal

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

  Padma Lakshmi

  Witty, Clever, Women

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.

  Rachel Bloom

  Sexy, Writing, Creating

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Knowledge, People, Intelligence

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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  You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Smart, Humor

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Smart, Stupid

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• I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying.

  Justin Chambers

  Doctors, Jargon, Information

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• Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

  Tara Brach

  Growing Up, Brain, West

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wife, Want

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• The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

  Andre Gide

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• Russia may soon get another chance to move closer to the West, to make a step - I do believe the first step toward democracy was made in the 1990s, and perhaps the next step can happen now. If this happens, the West needs to see it in time and support it in an intelligent way.

  Vladimir Voinovich

  Believe, Moving, Support

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Hillary, you're a strong woman, you're an intelligent woman - you're not a good woman. But if you want to do good, let the Black man go, and stop deceiving them, that you are really their "friend." If you were their friend, why did you kill Muammar Gadhafi?

  Louis Farrakhan

  Strong Women, Black, Good Woman

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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  So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Wall, Men, People

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per cent of our DNA is the same. The difference is that we have developed language - we can teach about things that aren't there, plan for the future, discuss, share ideas

  Jane Goodall

  Dark, Dna, Ideas

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