Let life be your teacher

 

Niels Bohr

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”

~ Niels Bohr

Qoutes:Philisophical

  
    "It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
   

    "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney
   

 "Kindness in words creates confidence. 
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love." 
- Lao Tzu
    

    "When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl
    


    "Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy." - Milton Erickson
    

    
    "Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." -Oscar Wilde
     

   

    "Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others." - Buddha

 
"It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes." - Linda Evans


    "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." - Voltaire


    "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." - Jack Kerouac
    

    "If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives." - Lemony Snicket
    
    "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S Elliot
   

    "Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect." - Unknown
     

    "To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Conficius
    

    Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence, and face your future without fear." - Unknown
    

    "Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith." - Muhammad


    "Every new day is another chance to change your life." - Unknown

   
    "You can't be envious and happy at the same time." - Frank Tyger
   
    
    "Why compare yourself to others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you." - Unknown
    

    "Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections." - Unknown
    

    "Go and wake up your luck." - Persian Proverb

    
    "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." - Carl Jung
    

    "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - MarcusAurelius
    

    "It always seems impossible until its done." - Nelson Mandela
    

    "Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time." - Aristotle
   

    "Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation." - Thich Nhat Hanh
    

    "I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others." - Conficius
    
    "Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions." -  Unknown
   
    "The happiest people dont necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything." - Unknown
    

    "The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived." - Marilyn Monroe
    
    "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." - Italian Proverb
    
    "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." - Michel de Montaigne
   

    "It's not who you think you are that holds you back; it's who you think you're not." - Unknown
    
    "Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy." - Robert Tew
    
    

    "Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating." - Libba Bray
    

    "Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

    
    "I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy." - Richard Bach
    

    "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." - Dalai Lama
    
   

    "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble." - Rudyard Kipling
    

    "In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions." - Carlos C.
    

    "The obstacle is the path." - Zen Proverb
    

    "Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get.  Life should be touched, not strangled." - Ray Bradbury
    

    "Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full." - Tao Te Ching
    

    "When you seek it, you cannot find it." - Zen Proverb
    

    "Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness." - Pearl S. Buck
    
    

    "He that can’t endure the bad, will not live to see the good." - Jewish Proverb
    

    "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer

    
    "The pain you feel today will be the strength you will feel tomorrow." - Unknown
    


    "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Chinese Proverb
   


    "Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise." - Ram Dass
   

    "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
    

    "Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once." - Turkish Proverb
   

    "The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings." - Ralph Blum
    


    "The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them" - Paulo Coelho
    

    "He is able who thinks he is able." - Buddha

    
    "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
    

    "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." 
- Abraham Lincoln
   
   

    "According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another." - Cicero

Quotes

“Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.” ― Neel Burton

Man strives after his will with enough success to protect him from despair, and enough failure to preserve him from boredom... —Schopenhauer

 

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. —HL Mencken

 

“Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.” ― Leo Tolstoy

Quotes - Plato

 

The best thoughts from the best philosopher.

 

And, what, Socrates is the food of the soul?Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
—Protagoras

Unnamed friend: And is this stranger really in your opinion a fairer love than the son of Cleinias?
Socrates: And is not the wiser always the fairer, sweet friend?
—Protagoras

He said the soul was treated with certain charms, my dear Charmides, and that these charms were beautiful words.
—Charmides

Yea, by the dog of Egypt, I should greatly prefer a real friend to all the gold of Darius, or even to Darius himself.
—Lysis

And therefore, my boy, if you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful and good; but if you are not wise, neither father, nor mother, nor kindred, nor anyone else will be your friends.

—Lysis

My present state of mind is due to our previous argument, which inclines me to believe that in general those who do wrong involuntarily are worse than those who do wrong voluntarily, and therefore I hope that you will be good to me, and not refuse to heal me; for you will do me a much greater benefit if you cure my soul of ignorance, than you would if you were to cure my body of disease.
—Lesser Hippias

I hope I’ll never be so busy that I’d forego discussions such as this, conducted in the way that this one is, because I find it more practical to do something else.
—Gorgias

I think it is better to have my lyre or a chorus that I might lead out of tune and dissonant, and have the vast majority of men disagree with me and contradict me, than to be out of harmony with myself, to contradict myself, though I am only one person.
—Gorgias

Whither haste ye, O men? Yea, verily ye know not that ye are doing none of the things ye ought…
—Clitophon

…and I went and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me.
—Apology

Men of Athens, I am grateful and I am your friend, but I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet: Good Sir, you are an Athenian, a citizen of the greatest city with the greatest reputation for both wisdom and power; are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation and honours as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
—Apology

For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. And don’t be offended at my telling you the truth: for the truth is that no man who goes to war with you or any other multitude, honestly struggling against the commission of unrighteousness and wrong in the state, will save his life; he who will really fight for the right, if he would live even for a little while, must have a private station and not a public one.
—Apology

For if I tell you this would be a disobedience to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living – that you are still less likely to believe.
—Apology

When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing… The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
—Apology

Theaetetus: Yes, Socrates, and I am amazed when I think of [these contradictions]; by the Gods I am! And I want to know what on earth they mean; and there are times when my head quite swims with the contemplation of them.
Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.—Theaetetus




 Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201303/top-15-plato-quotes

 

Published on March 18, 2013 by Neel Burton, M.D. in Hide and Seek

Quotes:Success

"It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

 

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. 

-Bernard M. Baruch

 

Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be unlocked from the inside. -Marilyn Ferguson

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. -Juan Manuel Fangio

 

When you know what you want; and want it bad enough; you will find a way to get it. -Jim Rohn

 Resolve to be bigger than your problems. Who's the boss?     -- Donald Trump

 

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others. -Stefan Zweig

 I know the price of success; dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright

 

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. -Al Gore

 

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes. -John Assaraf

 

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right & stick to it. -T.S. Eliot

 

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. -Eric Hoffer

 Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. -Winston Churchill

 

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. William Van Horne

Love what you do and do what you love. It's that simple. -Wayne Dyer

 The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. -Sven Goran Eriksson

 Never let the other fellow set the agenda. -James Baker

 It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. -Elbert Hubbard

 

To be a good loser is to learn how to win. -Carl Sandburg

 What is now proved, was once only imagined. -William Blake

 The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde.

 

 

The road to success runs uphill. -Willie Davis

 Change is vital; Improvement is the logical form of change. -James Cash Penney

 Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. -Bernard M. Baruch

 Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be unlocked from the inside. -Marilyn Ferguson

 You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. -Juan Manuel Fangio

 

When you know what you want; and want it bad enough; you will find a way to get it. -Jim Rohn

When the Mind Wanders, Happiness Also Strays

A quick experiment. Before proceeding to the next paragraph, let your mind wander wherever it wants to go. Close your eyes for a few seconds, starting ... now.

And now, welcome back for the hypothesis of our experiment: Wherever your mind went — the South Seas, your job, your lunch, your unpaid bills — that daydreaming is not likely to make you as happy as focusing intensely on the rest of this column will.

I’m not sure I believe this prediction, but I can assure you it is based on an enormous amount of daydreaming cataloged in the current issue of Science. Using an iPhone app called trackyourhappiness, psychologists at Harvard contacted people around the world at random intervals to ask how they were feeling, what they were doing and what they were thinking.

The least surprising finding, based on a quarter-million responses from more than 2,200 people, was that the happiest people in the world were the ones in the midst of enjoying sex. Or at least they were enjoying it until the iPhone interrupted.

The researchers are not sure how many of them stopped to pick up the phone and how many waited until afterward to respond. Nor, unfortunately, is there any way to gauge what thoughts — happy, unhappy, murderous — went through their partners’ minds when they tried to resume.

When asked to rate their feelings on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being “very good,” the people having sex gave an average rating of 90. That was a good 15 points higher than the next-best activity, exercising, which was followed closely by conversation, listening to music, taking a walk, eating, praying and meditating, cooking, shopping, taking care of one’s children and reading. Near the bottom of the list were personal grooming, commuting and working.

When asked their thoughts, the people in flagrante were models of concentration: only 10 percent of the time did their thoughts stray from their endeavors. But when people were doing anything else, their minds wandered at least 30 percent of the time, and as much as 65 percent of the time (recorded during moments of personal grooming, clearly a less than scintillating enterprise).

On average throughout all the quarter-million responses, minds were wandering 47 percent of the time. That figure surprised the researchers, Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert.

“I find it kind of weird now to look down a crowded street and realize that half the people aren’t really there,” Dr. Gilbert says.

You might suppose that if people’s minds wander while they’re having fun, then those stray thoughts are liable to be about something pleasant — and that was indeed the case with those happy campers having sex. But for the other 99.5 percent of the people, there was no correlation between the joy of the activity and the pleasantness of their thoughts.

“Even if you’re doing something that’s really enjoyable,” Mr. Killingsworth says, “that doesn’t seem to protect against negative thoughts. The rate of mind-wandering is lower for more enjoyable activities, but when people wander they are just as likely to wander toward negative thoughts.”

Whatever people were doing, whether it was having sex or reading or shopping, they tended to be happier if they focused on the activity instead of thinking about something else. In fact, whether and where their minds wandered was a better predictor of happiness than what they were doing.

“If you ask people to imagine winning the lottery,” Dr. Gilbert says, “they typically talk about the things they would do — ‘I’d go to Italy, I’d buy a boat, I’d lay on the beach’ — and they rarely mention the things they would think. But our data suggest that the location of the body is much less important than the location of the mind, and that the former has surprisingly little influence on the latter. The heart goes where the head takes it, and neither cares much about the whereabouts of the feet.”

Still, even if people are less happy when their minds wander, which causes which? Could the mind-wandering be a consequence rather than a cause of unhappiness?

To investigate cause and effect, the Harvard psychologists compared each person’s moods and thoughts as the day went on. They found that if someone’s mind wandered at, say, 10 in the morning, then at 10:15 that person was likely to be less happy than at 10 , perhaps because of those stray thoughts. But if people were in a bad mood at 10, they weren’t more likely to be worrying or daydreaming at 10:15.

“We see evidence for mind-wandering causing unhappiness, but no evidence for unhappiness causing mind-wandering,” Mr. Killingsworth says.

This result may disappoint daydreamers, but it’s in keeping with the religious and philosophical admonitions to “Be Here Now,” as the yogi Ram Dass titled his 1971 book. The phrase later became the title of a George Harrison song warning that “a mind that likes to wander ’round the corner is an unwise mind.”

What psychologists call “flow” — immersing your mind fully in activity — has long been advocated by nonpsychologists. “Life is not long,” Samuel Johnson said, “and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.” Henry Ford was more blunt: “Idleness warps the mind.” The iPhone results jibe nicely with one of the favorite sayings of William F. Buckley Jr.: “Industry is the enemy of melancholy.”

Alternatively, you could interpret the iPhone data as support for the philosophical dictum of Bobby McFerrin: “Don’t worry, be happy.” The unhappiness produced by mind-wandering was largely a result of the episodes involving “unpleasant” topics. Such stray thoughts made people more miserable than commuting or working or any other activity.

But the people having stray thoughts on “neutral” topics ranked only a little below the overall average in happiness. And the ones daydreaming about “pleasant” topics were actually a bit above the average, although not quite as happy as the people whose minds were not wandering.

There are times, of course, when unpleasant thoughts are the most useful thoughts. “Happiness in the moment is not the only reason to do something,” says Jonathan Schooler, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has shown that mind-wandering can lead people to creative solutions of problems, which could make them happier in the long term.

Over the several months of the iPhone study, though, the more frequent mind-wanderers remained less happy than the rest, and the moral — at least for the short-term — seems to be: you stray, you pay. So if you’ve been able to stay focused to the end of this column, perhaps you’re happier than when you daydreamed at the beginning. If not, you can go back to daydreaming starting...now.

Or you could try focusing on something else that is now, at long last, scientifically guaranteed to improve your mood. Just make sure you turn the phone off.




Source: 

November 15, 2010
By JOHN TIERNEY
 LINK:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/science/16tier.html?_r=2&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB&

Will Focus Make You Happier?

A November 15 article in the New York Times cited a recent study from Harvard happiness experts Daniel Gilbert and Matthew Killingsworth, who used an iPhone app to contact some 2,200 individuals and get a total of roughly 250,000 replies as to how each person was feeling and what they were doing at the time they were contacted. Not surprisingly, the people who reported the highest levels of pleasure were having sex when contacted (not sure what they felt after being interrupted). And they were highly focused on what they were doing, at least prior to the interruption.


The surprise came from the 99.5% of people who were not having sex when contacted. Nearly half of them reported that their minds were wandering when contacted; in other words, half of them were not focused on whatever it was they were doing. Those who were focused reported significantly higher levels of happiness than those who were not.

As an expert on ways to achieve peak performance as well as expert on attention deficit disorder (A.D.D.) and the crazy busy pace of modern life, this study caught my eye. So...unless we're having sex, half of us at any given moment are not focused on what we're doing. Not only does such lack of focus lead to unhappiness, it also leads to errors, wasted time, miscommunication and misunderstanding, diminished productivity, and who-knows-how-much global loss of income (there'll be a study on that soon, no doubt).

All of which cries out the question, why such rampant lack of focus? And what remedies can we apply?

One might suggest we all take Ritalin for our culturally-induced A.D.D., but not only would that be medically inadvisable, we're pretty much already doing the equivalent. Just look at the lines at Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, not to mention the sales of Mountain Dew, Red Bull, and the rest.

But why such lack of focus in need of so much caffeine? If Killingsworth and Gilbert had done their study 100 years ago, or even 20 years ago, would they have found the same results? At any given moment, have half the minds in the USA — or the world — always been wandering? Or is this a new phenomenon?

My money — and available research — says it's new, or at least it's grown worse of late. 30% to 40% of people's time in the workplace is spent tending to unplanned interruptions, and then reconstituting the mental focus the interruption caused. I'm sure that was not the case 20 years ago simply because the tools of interruption were not so plentiful. And all the distraction has created blocks in thinking and feeling deeply. We're being superficialized and sound-bit.

Edward Hallowell, MD, is a psychiatrist, served as an instructor at Harvard Medical School for 20 years, and is the director of the Hallowell Centers in New York City and Sudbury, Massachusetts. He has written two popular Harvard Business Review articles and authored eighteen books, including the national bestseller Driven to Distraction, that have sold millions of copies. His forthcoming book, Shine, is due out in January from Harvard Business Review Press.

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Edward Hallowell

Edward Hallowell, MD, is a psychiatrist, served as an instructor at Harvard Medical School for 20 years, and is the director of the Hallowell Centers in New York City and Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Quotes: Money and Markets

"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. " - Warren Buffett

 "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing." – Warren Buffett

 

"In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

 

"Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday." -Larry Summers

 "Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows, they end with 10 or 15-year lows." – Jim Rogers

 

"Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive." -Milton Friedman

 

"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman." - G Soros

 

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -John Maynard Keynes

 

"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing." - Phillip Fisher

 

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

"The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.'" - Sir John Templeton

 "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game" - Donald Trump

 

"Diversification is a hedge for ignorance" - William O’Neil.

 

"Cash is a fact, profit is an opinion." -Alfred Rappaport

 

"I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it." - Dave Ramsey

 

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" -Ayn Rand

 

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." -Oscar Wilde

 "I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves." -Joe Louis

 

"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?" - Rene Rivkin (Net Worth $346 Million)

 

"Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions." -A.A. Latimer

 

"Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times." - John Burroughs

 

"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse." - Alan Greenspan

 

"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case." - Robert G. Allen

 "Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but realty as distorted by a misconception" - George Soros

 

"You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress." – J. Paul Getty

 

"My basic advise is don’t lose money" - Jim Rogers

 

"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it." – Andrew Carnegie

 

"Go to the mouse you foolish investor and learn. A mouse never entrusts its life to only one hole." – Ajaero Tony Martins

 

"Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows." - Horore de Balzac

 "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." -Henry Ford

  

"If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. " - J. Templeton

 

"Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years." – Jim Rogers

 "Don’t try to buy at the bottom or sell at the top" – Bernard Baruch

 

"Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play." 

– J. Paul Getty

 "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

 “The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.” - John Templeton

 "I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

 

"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

 

"The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them." - Peter Lynch

"Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy. " Jack Bogie

 

"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years." - Warren Buffett

 

"Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap." -Benjamin Graham

 

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway." - Warren Buffett

 

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

 "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

"Maybe the trend is your friend for a few minutes in Chicago, but for the most part it is rarely a way to get rich" - Jim Rogers.

 

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in." – John D. Rockefeller

 "Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting." - Billy Rose

 

"At a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts." – Aristotle Onassis

 

"Go for a business any idiot can run because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it." – Peter Lynch

 

"Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket. It’s part ownership of a business." – Peter Lynch

 

"Know what you own, and know why you own it." - Peter Lynch

 "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford

"Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth." - Paul Clitheroe

 

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

 

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." - Warren Buffett

 

"In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten." - Peter Lynch

 "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective." - Warren Buffett

 "Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap." -Benjamin Graham

"It’s never too late to learn." – Malcolm Forbes

 

”I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.” - George Soros

 

"Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class." – Rich Dad

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

 "A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim." - Kenneth Chang

 

"Index investing outperforms active management year after year." – Jim Rogers

 "Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything." - Ben  Graham

 

"Seek advice on risk from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a football bet." – J. Paul Getty

 

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

 

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it." – Warren Buffett

 

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan

 

 

"Diversify your investments." - John Templeton

 "The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell." - John Templeton

 "Only those who are asleep make no mistakes." – Ingvar Kamprad

 

"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters." - Jean-Paul Kauffmann

 

"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and Money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. " - Soros

 

 "I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said." -Alan Greenspan

 "Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy." - Spike Milligan

 

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets." - John D. Rockefeller

 

"When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise." - George Soros

 "If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today. Provided I’d started with a hundred million dollars." -Jon Stewart

 

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -John Maynard Keynes

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett

 

Quotes: Money

"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. " - Warren Buffett

 "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing." – Warren Buffett

 

"In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

 

"Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday." -Larry Summers

 "Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows, they end with 10 or 15-year lows." – Jim Rogers

 

"Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive." -Milton Friedman

 

"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman." - G Soros

 

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -John Maynard Keynes

 

"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing." - Phillip Fisher

 

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

"The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.'" - Sir John Templeton

 "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game" - Donald Trump

 

"Diversification is a hedge for ignorance" - William O’Neil.

 

"Cash is a fact, profit is an opinion." -Alfred Rappaport

 

"I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it." - Dave Ramsey

 

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" -Ayn Rand

 

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." -Oscar Wilde

 "I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves." -Joe Louis

 

"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?" - Rene Rivkin (Net Worth $346 Million)

 

"Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions." -A.A. Latimer

 

"Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times." - John Burroughs

 

"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse." - Alan Greenspan

 

"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case." - Robert G. Allen

 "Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but realty as distorted by a misconception" - George Soros

 

"You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress." – J. Paul Getty

 

"My basic advise is don’t lose money" - Jim Rogers

 

"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it." – Andrew Carnegie

 

"Go to the mouse you foolish investor and learn. A mouse never entrusts its life to only one hole." – Ajaero Tony Martins

 

"Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows." - Horore de Balzac

 "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." -Henry Ford

  

"If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. " - J. Templeton

 

"Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years." – Jim Rogers

 "Don’t try to buy at the bottom or sell at the top" – Bernard Baruch

 

"Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play." 

– J. Paul Getty

 "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

 “The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.” - John Templeton

 "I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

 

"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

 

"The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them." - Peter Lynch

"Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy. " Jack Bogie

 

"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years." - Warren Buffett

 

"Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap." -Benjamin Graham

 

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway." - Warren Buffett

 

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

 "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

"Maybe the trend is your friend for a few minutes in Chicago, but for the most part it is rarely a way to get rich" - Jim Rogers.

 

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in." – John D. Rockefeller

 "Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting." - Billy Rose

 

"At a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts." – Aristotle Onassis

 

"Go for a business any idiot can run because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it." – Peter Lynch

 

"Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket. It’s part ownership of a business." – Peter Lynch

 

"Know what you own, and know why you own it." - Peter Lynch

 "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford

"Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth." - Paul Clitheroe

 

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

 

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." - Warren Buffett

 

"In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten." - Peter Lynch

 "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective." - Warren Buffett

 "Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap." -Benjamin Graham

"It’s never too late to learn." – Malcolm Forbes

 

”I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.” - George Soros

 

"Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class." – Rich Dad

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

 "A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim." - Kenneth Chang

 

"Index investing outperforms active management year after year." – Jim Rogers

 "Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything." - Ben  Graham

 

"Seek advice on risk from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a football bet." – J. Paul Getty

 

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

 

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it." – Warren Buffett

 

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan

 

 

"Diversify your investments." - John Templeton

 "The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell." - John Templeton

 "Only those who are asleep make no mistakes." – Ingvar Kamprad

 

"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters." - Jean-Paul Kauffmann

 

"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and Money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. " - Soros

 "I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said." -Alan Greenspan

 "Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy." - Spike Milligan

 

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets." - John D. Rockefeller

 

"When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise." - George Soros

 "If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today. Provided I’d started with a hundred million dollars." -Jon Stewart

 

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -John Maynard Keynes

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett