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jimgour wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 10:51 am I have only one bad habit. I lie.
So, you have more than one bad habit.
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From a Wall Street Journal article in the aftermath of the 1987 market crash (based on my memory).

A reporter asked a CEO why the company wasn't purchasing their own stock at such low levels.

His response:

"I've heard of lots of companies that have gone out of business because they ran out of cash. I've not heard of one going out of business because their stock price was too low."
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rob wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:52 am I've always liked this one but no idea where it came from and have known it since I was a kid... It's a reminder that perspective is everything....

I want to die like my grand-father peacefully in his sleep.... Not screaming like the passengers in his car.
I love this one. Was it Stephen Wright?

My contribution -

"In the long run, we're all dead."

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6bquick wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:20 pm Education is expensive. -Dad.
if you think education is expensive, try ignorance
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“There are two kinds of men on this beach: those who are dead and those that are about to die.
So, let’s get the hell off of this beach and at least die inland.” COL George Taylor,16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Inf. Div, Omaha beach, 6/6/1944
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BrooklynInvest wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:19 pm
rob wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:52 am I've always liked this one but no idea where it came from and have known it since I was a kid... It's a reminder that perspective is everything....

I want to die like my grand-father peacefully in his sleep.... Not screaming like the passengers in his car.
I love this one. Was it Stephen Wright?
Not orig because I've known it forever - although he might have used/paraphrased it also... Seems to be some similarly phrased references out there to Will Rogers... but unclear... Most of the quotes people know are reused/repurposed... or associated to Einstein to give it some force :D
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"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones." George Washington to James Welch 7 April 1799.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents ... 03-02-0362

Although one of, if not the, wealthiest man in the newly formed United States, Washington was cash poor as the letter attests -and his anger is apparent. Nonetheless, one thing he did have in common with Bogleheads is that he diversified; early on as an adult, he realized tobacco as a crop was doomed.
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Crypto?
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"It's a small world.......but I wouldn't want to paint it"
Stephen Wright

"I have something he will never have.....enough"
Kurt Vonnegut to Joseph Heller at a party given by a billionaire hedge fund manager.

"Some things are better left unsaid. But eventually I'll have a couple of beers and say them anyway!"
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Nicolas wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 1:43 pm I can quit smoking anytime I want to, I’ve done it a thousand times.
I quit smoking cigarettes 64 years ago. I tried it once (because the other kids in the neighborhood did) but didn’t get it.

To quote a previous president: "I didn't inhale." :)
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Woodshark wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 3:41 pm "I have something he will never have.....enough"
Kurt Vonnegut to Joseph Heller at a party given by a billionaire hedge fund manager.

Q: What do you get the person who has everything?
A: Nothing. It's the one thing s/he doesn't have.

--said by me.
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"Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?" -- George Gobel
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Most of these I wished I had learned earlier or took them more seriously when I heard them. Now nearing 60 there are a lot of things I wished I would have done differently.

Don't judge a person until you walk a mile in their shoes.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Money can buy you possessions or freedom.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

This one I just read and wished I had read it sooner -
"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life." -John Wooden


One thing I look back on and regret is playing life too safe. Fear of failure kept me from trying things. When I was briefly a manager I told people no one has ever passed a test w/o taking it. I see Gretzky is attributed to the following which is about the same thing - "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take".

I don't know if there is a saying that would summarize the following but if true it would be another of my failings - Something along the lines of enjoying life as it comes on a daily basis instead of racing to reach certain end points. I was very obsessed with getting through college and don't think I gained much from it except the education. I raced through too many work weeks just to get to the weekends which meant I threw away 5/7ths of many weeks.

Lots of good quotes out there.
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More money is lost waiting for the next correction than in the correction itself
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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe
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"Son, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life!" Dean Wormer.
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I have never seen this topic, so I hope this isn't a repeat.

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"Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid."

Attributed to John Wayne
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Socrates:

"Is it better to live among good people or bad?"

This is the question Socrates poses to the person who accused him of corrupting the youth of Athens during Socrates' trial for his life.

Socrates followed up by saying only an insane person would deliberately corrupt the young, so if he did corrupt the youth he must be insane or have done it unintentionally, neither of which would make him guilty. His question is brilliant enough as a great one-liner in the context of his trial, but beyond that it invites the listener/reader to think on their own that if it's obviously better to live among the good, then what are our own responsibilities?

(From Plato's Apology)
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making predictions is hard, especially about the future.
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Big hat, no cattle.
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Few people on their deathbed say "Come to think of it, I wish I'd spent more time in the office"
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Enough is as good as a feast.
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There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
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Smoke em if you got em.
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I keep a list in my online notebook.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.  -Lord Chesterfield

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes. -Steve Martin

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.-Woody Allen

 "A goal without a plan is just a wish."  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

There is nothing I can buy today that will give me more satisfaction than knowing I will have enough money when I am old.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?  --John Wooden

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” -Charles Burkowski

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. -W. R. Alger

No one wants advice, only corroboration. -John Steinbeck

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. -Ivern Ball

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.-Oscar Wilde
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There are many roads to Dublin.
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In reference to people who are complainers and find fault with everything and everybody……..”some people wouldn’t be happy if you hung ‘‘em with a new rope.”
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I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former room-mate.
What does that make us?
Absolutely nothing!

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"If I said my favorite quote, the moderators would delete it".



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Morse Code wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:38 am There are many roads to Dublin.
I checked my map app.. there do seem to be quite a few. :wink:
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Boglenaut wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:02 am
Morse Code wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:38 am There are many roads to Dublin.
I checked my map app.. there do seem to be quite a few. :wink:
This favorite saying became more tangible to me a few years ago when we flew in to Dublin, rented a car and drove into the countryside. :)
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Newton never joked—one close acquaintance could recall only a single time when he had seen the great man laugh (someone had asked what use it was to study Euclid).
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four7s wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:49 am In reference to people who are complainers and find fault with everything and everybody……..”some people wouldn’t be happy if you hung ‘‘em with a new rope.”
My dad's favorite variation on this one: "some people would b**ch about cold ice cream".
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pezblanco wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:20 am Newton never joked—one close acquaintance could recall only a single time when he had seen the great man laugh (someone had asked what use it was to study Euclid).
A grave man.
Perhaps he was physic-ally unable
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I too keep an online list of quotes 😻

A satisfied life is better than a successful life. Because our success is measured my others, but our satisfaction is measured by our own mind, heart, & soul.

Family is not the people you are related to by blood,” she wrote. “They are the people that support you, look out for you, & love you unconditionally.”

Keith Richards: no one wants to get old, but no one wants to die young either.

Keith Richards: People like Rock,
I like the roll.

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” - Jamie Anderson

A man who fears suffering
Already suffers what he fears

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."
— John Maxwel

that the pain of change usually doesn't come from actual change, it comes from resisting it.

Not fragile like a flower, fragile like a bomb.

And finally….
I saw God walking across the Upper Peninsula. When I stopped to ask Him why He was here He replied, “I’m working from home this week.”
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PoppyA wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:44 am

And finally….
I saw God walking across the Upper Peninsula. When I stopped to ask Him why He was here He replied, “I’m working from home this week.”
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Don't tell too many people. We don't want the UP overrun.
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Enjoying everyone's contributions!


We must adjust to changing times and still uphold unchanging principles. --President Jimmy Carter
Edit: President Carter attributes the quote to his high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman

Respect is like air. When it's there, you don't even notice it, but when it's not, it's all you can think about. --Crucial Conversations

When we meet a person, we are in the middle of our [life] novels meeting them in the middle of theirs. – Friend Bill

Your actions speak so loudly, I can't hear what you say. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can make no greater mistake than to think what we see is what is seen by everyone else. --Norman Spinrad, 'A Thing if Beauty'

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. --Maya Angelou

If I am present, I remember that my way of doing things isn't the only way of doing things, and my way of thinking isn't the only way of thinking. If I am present, we both come away richer. – Friend Jim

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If you cannot answer each one of those gatekeepers with a 'yes,' don't say it or think it or do it. --Suze Orman

Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people ... Show respect to all people and grovel to none. … When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. … --Tecumseh

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. --Harriet Tubman

Social media is an amusement park for the clinically narcissistic. --Moira Rose, 'Schitt's Creek'
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tenkuky wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:57 am
PoppyA wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:44 am

And finally….
I saw God walking across the Upper Peninsula. When I stopped to ask Him why He was here He replied, “I’m working from home this week.”
:beer
Don't tell too many people. We don't want the UP overrun.
Thank God for those long drives, & lack of flights!! (I think)
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Kaizen Soze wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:27 am The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.
— Henry Ford
Awesome one.

My favorite is (slightly modified to add she to it):

A designer knows s/he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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