July 27, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-27-2008
I, Ryunosuke Tsukue, trust only my sword in this world.
-Ryunosuke Tsukue in Sword of Doom
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July 20, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-20-2008
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
-Joseph Stalin
July 13, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-13-2008
In Three Days of the Condor, when professional killer G. Joubert is asked “Why” he kills people for a living:
I don’t interest myself in “why”. I think more often in terms of “when”, sometimes “where”; always “how much”.
July 6, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 07-06-2008
Freedom is the last, best hope on earth.
-Abraham Lincoln
June 29, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-29-2008
I don’t consider myself a home-run hitter. But when I’m seeing the ball and hitting it hard, it will go out of the park.
-Ken Griffey Jr.
June 22, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-22-2008
What each man does will shape his trial and fortune.
For Jupiter is king to all alike;
the fates will find their way.
-The Aeneid
June 15, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-15-2008
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
-Polybius
June 8, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-08-2008
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
-Jeremy Bentham
June 1, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 06-01-2008
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
-Nassim Taleb (ht: Market Moves)
May 18, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 05-18-2008
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
-Vladimir Lenin
May 11, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 05-11-2008
You know, the usual: supreme power, undue influence over others, world domination.
-David Harding of Winton Capital Management when asked about what drives him in Traderdaily
May 4, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 05-04-2008
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
-Fidel Castro
April 27, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 04-27-2008
Wooo!!! Business drunk! More business juice please!
-Liz Lemon on 30 Rock
April 13, 2008
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 04-13-2008
Anytime is the best time to buy.
-Kieran Quinn, chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association