Intelligent Quotes

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The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes… — Benjamin Graham
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume. — Benjamin Graham
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety. — Benjamin Graham
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic. — Benjamin Graham
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very… — Charlie Munger
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world. — Charlie Munger
All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock. — Charlie Munger
I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having… — Jane Goodall
Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per… — Jane Goodall
Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. — Aristotle
No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability.… — George Carlin
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.… — Carlos Castaneda
That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact… — Dick Cheney
One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with… — Dick Cheney
I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. — Philip Green
Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses.… — Carl Icahn
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will… — Amory Lovins
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to… — Charlie Munger
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. — Harlan Ellison
He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk. — Chidananda Saraswati
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this… — Edward Bernays
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and… — James Surowiecki

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