Money and Finance
- Seneca Quote
From Dialogues and Essays: Shun luxury, shun good fortune that makes men weak and causes their minds to grow sodden, and, unless something happens to remind them of their human lot, they waste away, lulled to sleep, as it were, in a drunkenness that has...
- Phil Fisher On Management Communication...
From Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits: It is the nature of business that in even the best-run companies unexpected difficulties, profit squeezes, and unfavorable shifts in demand for their products will at times occur. Furthermore, the companies into...
- Epictetus Quotes
"Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things." "Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."...
- Seneca Quote
“….we are never released from care if we suppose that each time we are under observation we are under scrutiny; for many things happen that expose our true selves against our will, and, though such attention to oneself may succeed, life brings neither...
- Excerpts From Dylan Grice's Latest Piece
Via Zero Hedge.Albert [Edwards] and I have a reputation as bears. And it’s true that we tend to focus on the downside. But that’s because we believe that over the long haul, those who think about risk scenarios - whether precedented or not – are...
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Misfortune weighs most heavily on those who expect nothing but good fortune...
"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive, but he who knows that these were the terms drawn up for him at the moment of his conception will live according to the bond, and at the same time will also with like strength of mind guarantee that none of the things that happen shall be unexpected. For by looking forward to whatever can happen as though it would happen, he will soften the attacks of all ills, which bring nothing strange to those who have been prepared beforehand and are expecting them; it is the unconcerned and those that expect nothing but good fortune upon whom they fall heavily. Sickness comes, captivity, disaster, conflagration, but none of them is unexpected — I always knew in what disorderly company Nature had confined me." -Seneca, "On Tranquility of Mind"
- Seneca Quote
From Dialogues and Essays: Shun luxury, shun good fortune that makes men weak and causes their minds to grow sodden, and, unless something happens to remind them of their human lot, they waste away, lulled to sleep, as it were, in a drunkenness that has...
- Phil Fisher On Management Communication...
From Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits: It is the nature of business that in even the best-run companies unexpected difficulties, profit squeezes, and unfavorable shifts in demand for their products will at times occur. Furthermore, the companies into...
- Epictetus Quotes
"Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things." "Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."...
- Seneca Quote
“….we are never released from care if we suppose that each time we are under observation we are under scrutiny; for many things happen that expose our true selves against our will, and, though such attention to oneself may succeed, life brings neither...
- Excerpts From Dylan Grice's Latest Piece
Via Zero Hedge.Albert [Edwards] and I have a reputation as bears. And it’s true that we tend to focus on the downside. But that’s because we believe that over the long haul, those who think about risk scenarios - whether precedented or not – are...