John Ottman's music has emerged. . . as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.
Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto. . . has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.