August 23, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 08-23-2009
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
-Oscar Wilde
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August 9, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 08-09-2009
You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
-Miracle Max in the Princess Bride
August 2, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 08-02-2009
Carp Diem…Roman term, it means, yknow, live for the now…Fish they live a very limited lifespan so by nature they *must* live for the now. It’s basically the basis for the entire expression.
-Sean Garrity on Rescue Me
July 26, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-26-2009
Eat what the monkey eats, then eat the monkey.
-U.S. Navy survival guidance
July 19, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-19-2009
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.
-Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal”
July 12, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-12-2009
Brains are like hearts — they go where they are appreciated.
-Robert McNamara
July 5, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-05-2009
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
-Aldous Huxley
June 28, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-28-2009
Sometimes in life you have to realize a poor investment and cut your losses. Write that down.
-Van Wilder Sr.
June 14, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-14-2009
Woe to the company that ignores the customer.
-Fritz Henderson, CEO of General Motors
June 7, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-07-2009
People care what I think. I have a prestigious blog, sir!
-Roman DeBeers on Party Down
May 31, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 05-31-2009
Veridian Dynamics. Every day something we make, makes your life better. Power, we make that. Technology, we make that. Cows. Well, no, we don’t make cows. Although we have made a sheep. And medicines. And airplane engines. And whatever this is. And all sorts of things. Veridian Dynamics. Every day something we make, makes your life better. Usually. Veridian. Life. Better.
-A commercial for Veridian Dynamics from Better Off Ted
May 24, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 05-24-2009
[Where the Guide] is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccucrate. In cases of major discrepancy it’s always reality that’s got it wrong. This was the gist of the notice. It said, “The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently innacurate.”
–The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
May 10, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 05-10-2009 Tiger Mike
TO: All Employees
Date: February 8th, 1978
SUBJECT: Celebrations of Any KindPer Edward Mike Davis’ orders, there will be no birthday celebrations, birthday cakes, levity, or celebrations of any kind within the office. This is a business office.
-MICHAEL D. CARROLL for Edward Mike Davis of Tiger Oil Company
May 4, 2009
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 05-03-2009
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence