Quotes About Behavior

P–E–E–R–S. That stands for People who Encourage Errors, Rudeness, and Stupidity

America's leaders should be examples of integrity and high moral standards. When their behavior evokes shame rather than pride and becomes something that we don't want to discuss in front of the children at the kitchen table, we should consider impeachment.

She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor.

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.

So perhaps, it occurs to Billy, this is the whole point of civilization, the eating of beautiful meals and the taking of decorous dumps, in which case he is for it, having had a bellyful of the other way.

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

Security analysis cannot presume to lay down general rules as to the proper value of any given common stock... The prices of common stocks are not carefully thought out computations, but the resultants of a welter of human reactions.

this book will teach you three powerful lessons: how you can minimize the odds of suffering irreversible losses; how you can maximize the chances of achieving sustainable gains; how you can control the self-defeating behavior that keeps most investors from reaching their full potential.

Se você não tem como prever o comportamento dos mercados, precisa aprender a prever e controlar o seu próprio.

The future of security prices is never predictable. And as you read ahead in the book, notice how everything else Graham tells you is designed to help you grapple with that truth. Since you cannot predict the behavior of the markets, you must learn how to predict and control your own behavior.

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the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself. ("The fault, dear investor, is not in our stars—and not in our stocks—but in ourselves….")

podía calcular los movimientos de los cuerpos celestiales, pero no la locura de la gente». Newton

The speculative public is incorrigible. In financial terms it cannot count beyond 3.

Anger leads to savagery,' I said curtly, 'and to stupidity.

I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.

Moralitatea are o mie de surse È™i nesfârÈ™ite mijloace de expresie

Apart front the things you can pick up ( the dressing and the proper way of speaking and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me like a lady and always will.

Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?

It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

The truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Weil die Wahrheit dessen, was man redet, das ist, was man tut, kann man das Reden auch lassen.