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"46 John Templeton Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 29 November 1912. Died: 8 July 2008 | Investor | Banker | Fund manager | Philanthropist |

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

Everyone Talents Duty Use
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Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

Forget Secret Creating Riches
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An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.
Attitude Gratitude Creates Blessings
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Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

Spend Owned Thrifty
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The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.

Expensive Words Time Different
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Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.

Self-improvement Help others
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If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Want Performance Crowd Things
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Focus on value because most investors focus on outlooks and trends

Focus Value Investors Trends
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What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

Life Question Expeience Grow
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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice

Nice Important
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The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

Person Wants Way Excuse
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For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

Prepared Market Calamity Opportunity
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Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.

Sell Stock Bargin Hold
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Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

Markets Grow Optimism Euphoria
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Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it

Happiness Spiritual Wealth Material
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Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

Invest Point Maximum Pessimism
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If you're not grateful, you're not rich - no matter how much you have.

Grateful Rich Matter
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Success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.
Success Process Answers Questions
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Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

Share Prices Flunctuate Values
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To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

Joy Give Scatter
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You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.

Weapons Earth Love Prayer
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If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Humble Little Eager Search
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The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.

Commitment Best Times Value
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It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

Produce Superior Performance Different
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By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Challenges Overcoming Wiser Compassionate
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It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

Understanding Emotion Investor Results
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The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

Person Experience Discovers New frontiers
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It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

Self-centered Human beings Limited Divinity
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True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

True peace Quality Circumstances
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The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?

Question God Anything
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You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.

You Fundamentalist Successful Market
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If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

Business Ethical Fail
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A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Successful Life Time
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The only way to experience love is to give it.

Way Experience Love Give
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High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
High ethics Happiness Success Life
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As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

Praise World Blossom Beautiful
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If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Egostical Welcome Opportunity Learn
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Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

Readers Lose Weak Mind
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Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

Happiness Pursued Given Returns
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Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

Worship Divinity Understand Comprehension
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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

Believe Religions Obsolete Ancient
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Work at being a humble person.

Work Humble Person
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Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

Hate Prayer Changes Person
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If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

Government People Spiritual Healthcare
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Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

Thanksgiving Grateful Results Thankful
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Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

Politics Willing Spend Reelected
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