your favorite quotes & one-liners
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A Collection of quotes
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Taylor
Looking for good (investment) quotes? You will find them here:
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Best wishes.
Taylor
Mark Twain on Truth
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
~ Member of the Active Retired Force since 2014 ~
It can buy you connections, but not reputation.FEDFERS wrote:uh...NAVigator wrote:To put things in perspective;
Money:
It can buy a house, but not a home.
It can buy a clock, but not time.
It can buy you a position, but not respect.
It can buy you a bed, but not sleep.
It can buy you a book, but not knowledge.
It can buy you medicine, but not health.
It can buy you sex but not love?
It can buy you schooling, but not talent.
It can buy you a tour, but not authentic travel.
It can buy you jokes, but not the sense of humor.
Victoria
I am not young enough to know everything.
Better to be forgotten than sued.
Never hit a man when he's down. You may find he's bigger than you when he gets up.
Behind every successful man is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
I used to be conceited, but now I'm absolutely perfect.
You can't judge a book by its movie.
A pessimist counting his blessings: 10...9...8...7...
Hypochondria is the only disease I haven't got.
Jury - 12 people who decide who has the best lawyer.
Don't drink and park. Accidents cause people.
The closest I came to perfection was when I wrote my resume.
I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and stare at it for hours.
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
and finally..
Procrastinate now!
Better to be forgotten than sued.
Never hit a man when he's down. You may find he's bigger than you when he gets up.
Behind every successful man is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
I used to be conceited, but now I'm absolutely perfect.
You can't judge a book by its movie.
A pessimist counting his blessings: 10...9...8...7...
Hypochondria is the only disease I haven't got.
Jury - 12 people who decide who has the best lawyer.
Don't drink and park. Accidents cause people.
The closest I came to perfection was when I wrote my resume.
I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and stare at it for hours.
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
and finally..
Procrastinate now!
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Help the poor by not becoming one of them. (-unknown)
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. (-Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. (-unknown)
No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway. (-unknown)
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (-Samuel Johnson)
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (-Carrie Fisher)
Feed your faith, and your doubts will starve to death. (-unknown)
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. (-Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. (-unknown)
No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway. (-unknown)
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (-Samuel Johnson)
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (-Carrie Fisher)
Feed your faith, and your doubts will starve to death. (-unknown)
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Time is Money. (Time = Money)
Knowledge is Power. (Knowledge = Power)
Work is Power times Time. (Work = Power x Time)
From the latter we get:
Time = Work / Power
Substituting Money for Time and Knowledge for Power, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Morale:
The more Knowledge you possess the less Money you get !
Victoria
Knowledge is Power. (Knowledge = Power)
Work is Power times Time. (Work = Power x Time)
From the latter we get:
Time = Work / Power
Substituting Money for Time and Knowledge for Power, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Morale:
The more Knowledge you possess the less Money you get !
Victoria
From my father:
You can't borrow your way out of debt.
If the grass is greener on t6he other side of the fence you can be sure that the water bill is more expensive.
From Rene Descartes;
If you live your life as if there is a God and there is none, then you have lost nothing. But if you live your life as if there is no God and there is one, then you have lost everything.
You can't borrow your way out of debt.
If the grass is greener on t6he other side of the fence you can be sure that the water bill is more expensive.
From Rene Descartes;
If you live your life as if there is a God and there is none, then you have lost nothing. But if you live your life as if there is no God and there is one, then you have lost everything.
IN GOD WE TRUST
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"Skin it back, Jack. Let the smooth side groove and the rough side drag."
(From a late 70's blues song - author / song name unknown)
(From a late 70's blues song - author / song name unknown)
"At cocktail parties lovely ladies would corner me and ask my opinion of the market, but alas, when they learned I was a bond man, they would quietly drift away." -- Sidney Homer/Salomon Bros
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[When] I was 11, I got straight A's, had two recesses a day, had the cutest girlfriend and won 32 tournaments. Everything's been downhill since. - TIGER WOODS
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - BERTRAND RUSSELL
Before the endgame, the gods have placed the middle game, and I bless those gods. - MIKHAIL TAL
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - MARK TWAIN
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -GANDHI
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - BERTRAND RUSSELL
Before the endgame, the gods have placed the middle game, and I bless those gods. - MIKHAIL TAL
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - MARK TWAIN
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -GANDHI
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Is this from Descartes? I thought this was Pascal's Wager, and I'm pretty sure Mr. Bogle used it in Common Sense to argue in favor of indexing.Wick1 wrote:From Rene Descartes;
If you live your life as if there is a God and there is none, then you have lost nothing. But if you live your life as if there is no God and there is one, then you have lost everything.
In any case, consider this: "There is a sense in which anything that you do might be regarded as a mixed strategy between wagering for God, and wagering against God, with suitable probability weights given to each. Suppose that you choose to ignore the Wager, and to go and have a hamburger instead. Still, you may well assign positive and finite probability to your winding up wagering for God nonetheless; and this probability multiplied by infinity again gives infinity. So ignoring the Wager and having a hamburger has the same expectation as outright wagering for God. Even worse, suppose that you focus all your energy into avoiding belief in God. Still, you may well assign positive and finite probability to your efforts failing, with the result that you wager for God nonetheless. In that case again, your expectation is infinite again." (More..)
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No wonder Buddha had to beg for a livingVictoriaF wrote:Time is Money. (Time = Money)
Knowledge is Power. (Knowledge = Power)
Work is Power times Time. (Work = Power x Time)
From the latter we get:
Time = Work / Power
Substituting Money for Time and Knowledge for Power, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Morale:
The more Knowledge you possess the less Money you get !
Victoria
A few favorite quotes
"Do the best you can."
Warren Buffett: "Taking a job because it'll look good on your resume is like saving up sex for when you get old."
Mike Tyson: "Everybody's got a plan--until they get hit!"
Bumper Sticker: "Well, at least the war on the environment is going well."
Miles Davis: "If I don't like what the critics say, I get in my Ferrari and drive away."
:lol:
Warren Buffett: "Taking a job because it'll look good on your resume is like saving up sex for when you get old."
Mike Tyson: "Everybody's got a plan--until they get hit!"
Bumper Sticker: "Well, at least the war on the environment is going well."
Miles Davis: "If I don't like what the critics say, I get in my Ferrari and drive away."
:lol:
A few more from George Carlin
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
Athiesm is a non-prophet organization.
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that half of them are stupider than that.
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
Athiesm is a non-prophet organization.
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that half of them are stupider than that.
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
Re: A few more from George Carlin
My favorte George Carlin line:
"Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning."
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"Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning."
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Will Rogers?
"Too many people spend money they have not earned, to buy things they do not want, to impress people they do not like."
-Will Rogers
At least, it is one of my favorite quotes.
Joe E.
-Will Rogers
At least, it is one of my favorite quotes.
Joe E.
Re: your favorite quotes & one-liners
I have only one bad habit. I lie.
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“Somewhere south where the water is warm, the drinks cold, and I don’t know the names of the players”.
Detective James “Sonny” Crockett.
Miami Vice
Detective James “Sonny” Crockett.
Miami Vice
John C. Bogle: “Simplicity is the master key to financial success."
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“There is a flip side to that coin”
The awesome movie of Heat.
Diner scene with Robert De Niro talking to Al Pacino.
Best.
Tony
The awesome movie of Heat.
Diner scene with Robert De Niro talking to Al Pacino.
Best.
Tony
John C. Bogle: “Simplicity is the master key to financial success."
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. (Groucho Marx).
My doctor told me that I was overweight. I said Doc, I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too. (Rodney Dangerfield).
What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
My doctor told me that I was overweight. I said Doc, I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too. (Rodney Dangerfield).
What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
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Everyone's circuit is wired differently! (When people act/behave differently for no reason whatso ever. I am an Electronics Engineer..lol)
Go Luck Yourself! (When people downplay my success and tell me that I am just lucky to have what I have)
Go Luck Yourself! (When people downplay my success and tell me that I am just lucky to have what I have)
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We were so poor when I was a kid that I didn’t have any clothes until I was 13 then mom bought me a hat so I could look out t’ window
Monty Python, I think
I started out with nothing and I’ve got most of it left
Don’t know where that came from
When asked if I manage my own investments…
I’m quite capable of losing my own money, I don’t need to pay someone to do it for me
I made that one up, I think
Monty Python, I think
I started out with nothing and I’ve got most of it left
Don’t know where that came from
When asked if I manage my own investments…
I’m quite capable of losing my own money, I don’t need to pay someone to do it for me
I made that one up, I think
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Autocorrect is my worst enema
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Man is not a rational animal, man is a rationalizing animal.
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“A Christmas Story” 24 hour marathon is always on in the house for Christmas Day.
“I double dog dare you. I triple dog dare you.”
Can’t make it up and gets me every holiday season!
Tony
“I double dog dare you. I triple dog dare you.”
Can’t make it up and gets me every holiday season!
Tony
John C. Bogle: “Simplicity is the master key to financial success."
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When ordering through a drive-through and my passengers are deciding what size drink to get I’m always recommending “go big or go home”
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It actually makes sense if you don’t think about it.
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Get your justice out of court, and then go pay your fine.
Moderation in all things, including moderation.
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When we order a small or medium drink and they hand us a 32 oz or bigger cup, I always say "This is why the terrorists hate us".OuterBanks wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:35 pm When ordering through a drive-through and my passengers are deciding what size drink to get I’m always recommending “go big or go home”
Useful in many first world situations.
"Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out." ― John Wooden
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Tax (see instructions).
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No matter where you go, there you are.
The Beatles on taxes:
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes.
Finally, ‘if you’ve already won the game, why keep playing?’ Bernstein.
The Beatles on taxes:
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes.
Finally, ‘if you’ve already won the game, why keep playing?’ Bernstein.
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Wealth is what you don't see.
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Doing nothing strikes us as intelligent behavior.
-Warren Buffett
-Warren Buffett
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This is mine too.JMacDonald wrote: ↑Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:24 am Hi,
I always try to follow the advice of Will Rogers:
"Buy a stock and when it goes up, sell it....
If it don't go up, then don't buy it."
Best Wishes,
Joe
Also “Heads I win, tails you lose”.
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“I didn't get into this as a crypto true believer... It’s mostly scams and memes when you get down to it.”
-- Caroline Ellison, having pled guilty to multiple charges of fraud, and now testifying against her former business ally Sam Bankman-Fried
72% individual stocks | 8% small cap value fund | 20% CDs & bonds
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To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation’s earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.
James Grant, Founder and Editor of “Grant’s Interest Rate Observer”
James Grant, Founder and Editor of “Grant’s Interest Rate Observer”
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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson
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I'm giving up drinking for a month.
(sorry, bad punctuation)
I'm giving up. Drinking for a month.
(sorry, bad punctuation)
I'm giving up. Drinking for a month.
"I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." Sir Isaac Newton
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Love this, it's been decades since I've seen it!Kathleen Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:11 am
Albert Einstein:
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I had a poster of Einstein with that quote on my bedroom wall back when I was around 20. Though the actual quote is “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
A quick search on Amazon shows this poster is still sold today.
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Clint Eastwood: "A Man's Got to Know his Limitations"
All we want are the facts...
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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 want to die like my grand-father peacefully in his sleep.... Not screaming like the passengers in his car.
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Its a dangerous business going out your front door. - J.R.R.Tolkien
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What do we say when you revived a 16 year old thread?
You either get busy living or get busy dying.
Time is the ultimate currency.