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Whether a decision is brilliant, or stupid, can only be determined retrospectively.
Even then, the opinion of the outcome is only relative to the present.
~RLS
Discontent Engenders Change.
~RLS
The best investment you'll ever make... is an investment in yourself.
Author Unknown
An explanation of time.
There is no present. Time creation and time termination is simultaneous.
The present is simply part of a continuing series of sequential events that have happened in the past.
The past is a series of sequential events that can be viewed as continuing,
or as a series of sequential events that can be marked by a starting and ending
point,
where the exact points of the sequence can never be precise.
The future is a series of sequential events that have not yet occurred.
~RLS
I have only turned the pages of time, and all is not inscribed yet.
Time is its own master and no one shepherds it.
Michael Paul Stewart
Happiness comes from the pursuit of a worthwhile goal.
Earl Nightingale
Numbers have meaning only when a relationship exists between the numbers value and any other numbers value, with each number referencing the same object, and each value representing the same type of intrinsic value of the referenced object.
~RLS
If people could catch a fish each time they threw their line in...
their feeling of enjoyment would soon become a feeling of boredom.
It is not in succeeding where one finds pleasure...
It is in the trying with both intermittent failure and success.
~RLS
There is no such thing as "Big Words". A more accurate view is simply a lack of knowledge of the meanings or concepts of the words associated with the "Big Words" needed to assimilate a comprehension of the “Big Words”.
~RLS
Paper profits can't be spent or reinvested.
Author Unknown
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:
Our perception of reality is determined by our thought processes, and our thought processes are limited by our language; therefore, language shapes our reality.
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford
Opportunity abounds where uncertainties flourish.
~RLS
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters.
One represents "danger", and the other represents "opportunity".
John F. Kennedy, in a speech, on April 12, 1959
Fear is supported on a bed of perceived awareness, whose schema may or may not be accurate.
~RLS
All glory comes from daring to begin.
William Shakespeare
Any fool can predict things retrospectively.
Find a person with the courage to openly forecast their insight,
proven to be either correct or incorrect retrospectively,
and you will have found a leader.
~RLS
In the end we're all dead, anyway.
John Maynard Keynes
"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."
Mother Teresa
"...I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs in the past. The only moment we have is right now..."
Marlon Brando.From Larry King's interview with Marlon Brando broadcast on CNN on October 7th, 1994
Mind over Matter
If you don’t mind...
It don’t matter.
John Gotti
The only thing worse than getting old...is getting older!
Author Unknown-but it is assumed he or she was not young.
"There never was a time when you or I did not exist.
Nor will there be any future when we shall cease to be."
Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita .
"Choose the right opponents.
If you don't see a sucker at the table, you're it."
Famed poker player, 'Amarillo Slim'.
The average person has no predilection for recondite subjects.
~RLS
The Steinhardt Six:
1. Make all of your mistakes early in life.
(The more tough lessons you learn early on, the fewer errors you make later)
2. Always make your living doing something you enjoy.
(This way, you devote your full intensity to it)
3. Always be intellectually competitive.
(Do constant research on subjects that make you money. Focus on the facts that matter most.
This will allow you to sense change coming before anyone else. )
4. Try to make good decisions even with incomplete information.
(Investors never can have all the data they need before they put their money at risk)
5. Always trust your intuition.
(Intuition is a subconscious hidden supercomputer in the mind, that can never
be observed at a conscious level. It will let you do the right things at the right time.)
6. Don't make small investments.
(You only have so much time and energy, do things that matter, that really count)
Michael Steinhardt, one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history.
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"Far better it is to dare mighty
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"Great minds discuss ideas; Eleanor Roosevelt |
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)
"It ain't the things that people don't know that's the problem,
it's the things they do know that 'Just Ain't So'."
Will Rogers
Don’t put a question mark where God has put a period.
Joel Osteen
Losers live in the past.
Winners live in the present.
Leaders live in the future.
~RLS
"Diversification is, in part at least, the negation of the ambitious pretensions of selectivity.
If one could select the best stocks unerringly, one would only lose by diversifying".
Ben Graham in the book "The intelligent Investor"
"...greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world."
John 4:4
"The doomsayers work by extrapolation; they take a trend and extend it, forgetting that the doom factor sooner or later generates a coping mechanism.
You cannot extrapolate any series in which the human element intrudes; history, that is the human narrative, never follows and will always foil the scientific curve."
Brabara Tuchman
It's not the cards your dealt...it's the way you play your hand.
Unknown Gambler