Quotes
Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Stanford (2005)
Steve Jobs went there, addressing death in a 2005 speech to Stanford, which was after his 2004 cancer diagnosis. Gradspot.com gave it an award for the “Best Ironically Uplifting Comment About Death.”
“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary… Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
Charlie Munger, VP, Berkshire Hathaway University of Southern California Law School (2007)
Warren Buffett’s long-time partner and VP of Berkshire Hathaway shares some insider inspiration on business – and life.
“You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end. … “You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.”
Winston Churchill, Former UK PM Harrow (1941)
Winston Churchill, one of the most widely quoted men in the world, never ceases to inspire with his timeless prose.
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. … “Very different is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.”
University of Texas at Austin (2003)
Michael Dell, who founded Dell Computers with $1,000 and the idea to sell computers directly to customers, says there’s not much to learn from success.
“As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own … “[D]on’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity. Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.”
“I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Swope
“You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity . What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
Adrian Rogers, 1931
“I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong… I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.”
George Soros
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
Winston Churchill
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A reform is a correction of abuses, a revolution is a transfer of power.”
Edwar Bulwer-Lytton
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Lord Acton
“Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes little sense for those who know what they’re doing.”
Warren Buffet
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
Robert Orben
“God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God… to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”
John D. Rockefeller
1905, 1839-1937, the richest man of all time, worth $200 billion (in 2001 USD)
“Greed is wanting something for nothing.”
M.D.
“I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what’s possible if you have some vision to take big risks.”
Mark Burnett
“I had a dollar. I had a friend. I gave my dollar to my friend. Now I have no dollar and have no friend.”
“I’d rather be rich and unhappy then poor and unhappy.”
“If money is the root of all evil, then why to churches beg for it?”
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
Warren Buffet
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
Aristotle Onassis
“If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it.”
“If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
“If you want to know what a man is really like, make notice how he acts when he loses money.”
Proverb
“If you want to make money, go where the money is.”
Kennedy
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
Warren Buffett
“Investing is simple, but not easy.”
Warren Buffet
“It’s hard enough to make money that you can’t do it by accident. Unless it’s your first priority, it’s unlikely to happen at all.”
Paul Graham
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
“It’s just paper – all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.”
Sam Walton
1918-1992, Was second richest man in world
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Money isn’t everything, but it’s right up there with oxygen.”
“Money may not buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.”
“Money’s only important when you don’t have any.”
“Most investors say “Don’t take risks.” The rich investor takes risks.”
Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad’s Guide To Investing
“No one can earn a million dollars honestly.”
William Jennings Bryan
“Nothing’s free.”
“Our favourite holding period is forever.”
Warren Buffet
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
Warren Buffet
“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”
Warren Buffet
“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.”
Rita Rudner
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffet
“Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. once you’re above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”
Warren Buffet
“Time is money.”
“Too many of us are spending money we haven’t earned to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t like.”
“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”
Warren Buffet
“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy, and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
Warren Buffet
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
Billy Graham
“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”
Warren Buffet
“Inflation is a disease, a dangerous and sometimes fatal disease that, if not checked in time, can destroy a society.”
“The Fate of a Country Is Inseparable From the Fate of Its Currency.”
Milton Friedman
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets.”
Peter Lynch
“If you take more chances, you’ve got more chances to win. … If you have a low tolerance for risk, you’ve got a lower probability of success.”
“Buck up, suck up and come back when you foul up”
James Carville and Paul Begala
