The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.
Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest. . . even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.