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Investing4 quotes
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out. — Warren Buffett · 2001Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume. — Warren Buffett · 1992Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. — Warren Buffett · 2008It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. — Warren Buffett · 1990Business2 quotes
In the business world... The rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett · 1992It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. — Warren Buffett · 1990Happiness2 quotes
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. — Willa Cather · 1918One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. — Willa Cather · 1902The human condition2 quotes
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. — Willa Cather · 1929There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years. — Willa Cather · 1913The stock market2 quotes
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out. — Warren Buffett · 2001Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume. — Warren Buffett · 1992Adversity1 quote
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather · 1915America1 quote
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. — Willa Cather · 1918American expansion1 quote
When the white men came we gave them lands, and did not wish to hurt them. But the white man drove us back and took our lands. Then the Great Father made us many promises, but they are not kept. He promised to give us large presents, and when they came to us they were small; they seemed to be lost on the way. — Red Cloud · 1870American frontier1 quote
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. — Willa Cather · 1918Business forecasts1 quote
In the business world... The rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett · 1992Carpe diem1 quote
There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that. — Willa Cather · 1912Connecting with others1 quote
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925Contentment1 quote
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. — Willa Cather · 1918Decadence1 quote
In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse. — Christopher Lasch · 1979Desire1 quote
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing-desire. — Willa Cather · 1915Ephemeral nature of life1 quote
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while. — Willa Cather · 1913Exile1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Fear1 quote
Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. — Warren Buffett · 2008Financial panics and bubbles1 quote
Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. — Warren Buffett · 2008Friends1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Friendship1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Greed1 quote
Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. — Warren Buffett · 2008Hate1 quote
I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! — Willa Cather · 1915History1 quote
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913Impermanence1 quote
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while. — Willa Cather · 1913Inscrutability1 quote
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925Intimacy1 quote
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. — Willa Cather · 1925Law1 quote
The law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still. — Roscoe Pound · 1921Learning1 quote
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather · 1915Legal theory1 quote
The law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still. — Roscoe Pound · 1921