Quotes About Safety

The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits.

Thus, in sum, we say that to have a true investment there must be present a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return."1 Note that investing, according to Graham, consists equally of three elements:

Graham's definition of investing could not be clearer: "An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return."1 Note

The concept of safety can be really useful only if it is based on something more tangible than the psychology of the purchaser.

The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.

we say that to have a true investment there must be present a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety"—never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be—can you minimize your odds of error.

Without banks, you would be burying your money in coffee cans in the back yard

If you collect a fat flock, you don't leave it grazing beside a wolf's den.

What really moves people to believe in God is not any intellectual argument at all. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is a big brother who will look after you. That plays a very profound part in influencing people's desire for a belief in God.

But although the world was happy, some savour had gone out of life, since safety had been preferred to adventure.

According to Cicero, he held that "friendship cannot be divorced from pleasure, and for that reason must be cultivated, because without it neither can we live in safety and without fear, nor even pleasantly.

I will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Psalm 91:2

Beloved, we are safe with God—free to believe He is who He says He is and can do what He says He can. Neither His dignity nor ours is at stake. We are safe with Him because we are His priority.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God first.

Lord, Your Word says that he who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe (Prov. 28:26). I've come to realize that I cannot trust in myself. My safety is in learning to trust in You, Lord.

There's no safety outside of God.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline - it's been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.

It was bad for a stuntman to have a reputation for being hurt, and worse yet to report it.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

I request everyone to mask up, sanitize and be careful not just for yourself, but for those around you, too.

We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?