Thoughts On the Business of Life - ABOUT MONEY?
Forbes Magazine
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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2002
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.-John Maynard Keynes
Buy when everyone is selling. And hold until everyone is buying.-J. Paul Getty
'Tis money that begets money.-English Proverb
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the averagestockholder than they do for baboonsin Africa.-T. Boone Pickens
We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night standsa "romantic."-Warren Buffett
I have enough money to last the rest of my life, unless I buy something.-Jackie Mason
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if youpile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.-Clint W. Murchison
Money doesn't talk, it swears.-Bob Dylan
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.-Dick Cavett
Fools rush in where angels fear to trade.-Ray Devoe
There is scarcely an instance of a manwho has made a fortune by speculation and kept it.-Andrew Carnegie
What makes a good trader more than anything else is the willingness to take losses.-Lew Glucksman
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. -Irene Peter
A Text...
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he givethof his bread to the poor.-Proverbs 22:9
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