Quotes About Wisdom

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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.