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"Everything is nothing." Henry James — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 31, 2020
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"It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces." Lord Chesterfield
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"It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 30, 2020
"The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table." Warren Buffet
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"Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal." Tim Cook
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"Focus on education is a big strength. I want to see young people focus on creativity and take more risks." Sundar Pichai
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"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools." Unknown
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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." James Douglas Morrison
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"The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt." Lord Chesterfield
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"Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases." Warren Buffet
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"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." Harry S Truman
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"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today." Jordan Peterson
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"Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new." Eric Schmidt
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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." Thomas Alva Edison
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"I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later." Lord Chesterfield
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"I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 18, 2020
"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." Nancy Reagan
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"I didn't mean to push all your buttons, I was just looking for the mute button." Unknown
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"You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else." Tim Cook
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." Warren Buffet
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"An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult" Lord Chesterfield
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"Before you can articulate your own standards of value, you must see yourself as a stranger and then you must get to know yourself." Jordan Peterson
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"I was asked to name all the presidents. I thought they already had names." Demitri Martin
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"Be impatient. It will create the progress the world needs." Sundar Pichai
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"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." David Malcolm Storey
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"It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all." Lord Chesterfield
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"If we shouldn't eat at night, why is there a light in the fridge?" Unknown
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"There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere." Eric Schmidt
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"Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves." Lord Chesterfield
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"I know the voices in my head aren't real, but sometimes their ideas are just awesome!" Heidi Nelson
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"I told them that we spend far too much time at work for it not to have deep meaning." Satya Nadella
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"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." Lord Chesterfield
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"You might fail a few times, but that's Ok. You end up doing something worthwhile which you learn a great deal from." Sundar Pichai
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"Man is more ape than many of the apes." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I'm not clumsy! The floor just hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies and the wall gets in my way!" Unknown
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"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." Steve Wozniak
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"You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay." Jordan Peterson
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"Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded." Lord Chesterfield
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"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best." Eric Schmidt
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"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." Warren Buffet
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"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves." Lord Chesterfield
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"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde
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"The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions." Tim Cook
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"A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life, he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right." Sundar Pichai
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"Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing." Lord Chesterfield
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"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." Andy Warhol
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"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Eric Schmidt
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"To the degree we're not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." Peter McWilliams
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"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day." Lord Chesterfield
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Lewis Carroll
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"The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable." Lord Chesterfield
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"For us, the most important thing we can do is raise people up, that is, either by giving the ability to do things they could not otherwise do, allow them to create things they couldn't otherwise create. It's about giving them tools; it is about empowering people." Tim Cook
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"For us, the most important thing we can do is raise people up, that is, either by giving the ability to do things they could not otherwise do, allow them to create things they couldn't otherwise create. It's about giving them tools; it is about empowering people." Tim Cook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 11, 2020
"Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages." Warren Buffett
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"Every person, organization, and even society reaches a point at which they owe it to themselves to hit refresh - to reenergize, renew, reframe, and rethink their purpose." Satya Nadella
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"Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. Much of happiness is hope, no." Jordan Peterson
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." George Santayana
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"The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging." Warren Buffett
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"Beware the fury of a patient man." John Dryden
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"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." Lorraine Hansberry
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"Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ ... what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing." Warren Buffett
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"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
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"With a hypothetical question you can only get, at best, a hypothetical answer." Father William Seifert
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"You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right." Warren Buffett
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"Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do." Jordan Peterson
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"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent, untroubled sleep." Albert Camus
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"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies." Warren Buffett
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"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages." Tennessee Williams
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"Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place." Satya Nadella
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." Henry Ford
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"Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing." Warren Buffett
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"Fight fair, but avoid fair fights." John Czepiel
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"I am not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde
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"Don't get caught up with what other people are doing. Being a contrarian isn't the key but being a crowd follower isn't either. You need to detach yourself emotionally." Warren Buffett
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"And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of." Jordan Peterson
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"Employees everyday, when they wake up, they don't want to go into the office to work. That's not a company I wanted to build. I want to ensure every employee, many years after they retire when they look back, they can enjoy a sweet memory of happy moments they shared." Eric Yuan
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"Employees everyday, when they wake up, they don't want to go into the office to work. That's not a company I wanted to build. I want to ensure every employee, many years after they retire when they look back, they can enjoy a sweet memory of happy moments they shared." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 11, 2020
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"The most important investment you can make is in yourself." Warren Buffett
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"There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed." Peter Sellers
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"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." African Proverb
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"Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market." Warren Buffett
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"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." Philip Larkin
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"If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups or downs of life. And only then would you be ready to develop that deeper sense of empathy and compassion for everything..." Satya Nadella
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"If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups or downs of life. And only then would you be ready to develop that deeper sense of empathy and compassion for everything..." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 4, 2020
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." George Orson Welles
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"When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever." Warren Buffett
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"If you fulfill your obligations everyday, you don't need to worry about the future." Jordan Peterson
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"They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide." Antonio Pigafetta
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"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." William Shakespeare
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"We want products where people feel like kissing you instead of slapping you." Warren Buffett
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"We make our freemium product work so well. We give most of our features for free. That's why almost every day there are so many user coming to our website. If they like our product, very soon they are going to pay for the subscription." Eric Yuan
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"We make our freemium product work so well. We give most of our features for free. That's why almost every day there are so many user coming to our website. If they like our product, very soon they are going to pay for the subscription." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 27, 2020
"It's very bad for a girl to be too pretty. It stops her developing a sense of humor, or a personality." About Time
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." William Shakespeare
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"The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage." Warren Buffett
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"The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 24, 2020
"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it." Douglas Adams
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"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Peter Drucker
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"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." Eric Schmidt
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"The years ahead will occasionally deliver major market declines — even panics — that will affect virtually all stocks. No one can tell you when these traumas will occur." Warren Buffett
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"We needed to build deeper empathy for our customers and their unarticulated and unmet needs. It was time to hit refresh." Satya Nadella
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"Today there are only two kinds of Americans: patriots and neofascists." Ted Rall
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"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Warren Buffett
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"A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for." W. C. Fields
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"For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments." Warren Buffett
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"Simplicity of character is the most natural result of profound thought." Chinese Proverb
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"The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind." Baz Luhrmann
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"When you were young you thought about who to marry. For sure you wanted to marry the one who really loved you. You do not want to date the one who always asks about how much money you have, how healthy you are, what's your family background? That's not sustainable." Eric Yuan
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"When you were young you thought about who to marry. For sure you wanted to marry the one who really loved you. You do not want to date the one who always asks about how much money you have, how healthy you are, what's your family background? That's not sustainable." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 10, 2020
"Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1." Warren Buffett
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"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." Sybil Marshall
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"When you have something to say, silence is a lie." Jordan Peterson
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"Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well." Warren Buffett
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"We're living proof that nice guys always finish last." Matthew Cooper
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"Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation." Satya Nadella
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