Quotes About Comparison

Many of those living in poverty in this country, in fact, would be considered quite wealthy by poor people in other countries.

After less than a week on campus I discovered I wan't that bright. All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive. Yale was a great leveler for me, because I now studied, worked, and lived with dozens of high-achieving students, and I didn't stand out among them.

the readers to buy their stocks as they bought their groceries, not as they bought their perfume

A comparison of eToys with Toys "R" Us, Inc.—its biggest rival—is shocking. In the preceding three months, Toys "R" Us had earned $27 million in net income and had sold over 70 times more goods than eToys had sold in an entire year. And yet as Figure 17-3 shows, the stock market valued eToys at nearly $2 billion more than Toys "R" Us.

In 1982, his biggest investment was Treasury bonds; right after that, he made Chrysler his top holding, even though most experts expected the automaker to go bankrupt; then, in 1986, Lynch put almost 20% of Fidelity Magellan in foreign stocks like Honda, Norsk Hydro, and Volvo. So, before you buy a U.S. stock fund, compare the holdings listed in its latest report against the roster of the S & P 500 index; if they look like Tweedledee and Tweedledum, shop for another fund.7

Be sure to compare the footnotes with those in the financial statements of at least one firm that's a close competitor, to see how aggressive your company's accountants are.

we advised the readers to buy their stocks as they bought their groceries, not as they bought their perfume.

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Much worse than yours.

Skin the colour of chestnuts

I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own.

Although, conscious of the similarities they shared with Zen, Jesuits in Japan stressed the differences.

We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?

NhÆ°ng ??i vá»›i ng??i lá»›n thì b? tuy?t ??i không th?y l?i bi?n há»™ nào cho vi?c Ä'ánh giá má»™t Ä'i?u t?t ??i vá»›i ng??i khác cao hÆ¡n là ng??i Ä'ó tá»± Ä'ánh giá Ä'i?u gì t?t cho mình

I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrud and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong. I thought I would get over it. I hoped it would go away. I wanted to be free of Hanna. But I never got over the feeling that something was wrong.

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations

The habit of thinking in terms of comparison is a fatal one.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.

Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.

The way of man has no wisdom, but that of God has…. Man is called a baby by God, even as a child by a man…. The wisest man is an ape compared to God, just as the most beautiful ape is ugly compared to man.

The positive sum of pleasures in a modern man's life is undoubtedly greater than was to be found in more primitive communities, but the consciousness of what might be has increased even more.