Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.
Honestly, I think I`ve stretched a talent which is so thin it`s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.
When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep. . . counting my blessings.
Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.
Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me. . . We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.
Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory of another European country. That's serious business. They started a war with their neighbor. Their troops as well as the separatists funded and controlled by Russia are killing people just about every day.
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is…. we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.
Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors' to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us". . . all of us.