Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts

Friday, August 18, 2023

Quotes

Memorable Quotes


Never measure your worth with the size of your office or the grandness of your title. Your worth is measured by the value you create for your employer, society and the world- Shunu Sen, Marketing Director Unilever ltd.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. - Mark Twain

Risk is a combination of danger and opportunity. You cannot have one without the other - Ashwath Damodaran.

Unhappiness is caused more by looking at other's achievement than one's own.-Subramanian

Happiness is what you do with what you have, Unhappiness is what you do with What you don't have - Subramanian

A bull market is when you check your stocks every day to see how much they went up. A bear market is when you don't bother to look anymore." - John Hammerslough

The %age of income you are able to save is more important than the %age of return you get. Particularly true when young and beginning of the career. 

Stomach grumbles when empty and sends a signal. The Brain doesn't. So decision making in investment has to be done carefully with full brain and not empty- Subramanian

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself- Rumi

You can do everything right and still lose. That's not weakness, that's life. Reverse is also true.You can do everything wrong and still win. That's not strength, that's luck.- Quote from StarTrek.
A cynic is a man who knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.- Oscar Wilde

 If people weren't so often wrong, we wouldn't be so rich Warren!- Charles munger

Strong minds discuss ideas, average mind discuss events and weak minds discuss people -Socrates

It is better to be roughly right than be precisely wrong-John Maynard Keynes

 Einstein said, everything that can be counted, does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. In Investments, it is the same. Everyone wants a high return, but nobody wants to take the risk. 

I bend with respect but not so much as to allow people to walk over me.

Stock Market is an art where traders take large amount of your money as SIP and give small amounts of profit now and then as incentives to make you stay in the Market. Investors are those who look at the huge hanging golden pot and lose whatever is there in the pot

Theodore Rossevelt, US president 1910 speech

Titled: Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Every Job looks easy when you are not the one doing it. Jeff Imelt - ex CEO of GE.

Festinger's Law states that 10% of life’s troubles are caused by events themselves, while 90% are determined by how we react to them.