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1217 Philanthropist Quotes

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: ‘Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.’

Stock Wealth Woman Commodity
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Trade Profit Forced Choose
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Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Basket Eggs Watch Closely
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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

Diversification Ignorance Protection Sense
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We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
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It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Tide Learn Swimming Naked
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Ignorance Leverage Combine Result
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I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Leverage Money Borrow Fail
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Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about
Passionate Never Job About
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People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

People Work Admire Should
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

Mind Sex Saving Resume
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I’m not interested in cars and my goal is not to make people envious. Don’t confuse the cost of living with the standard of living.

Envious Goal Cost Living
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Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.

Saving Spend Left What
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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Sell Things Buy Need
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The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
Important Investment Yourself Make
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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Snowball Important Life Long
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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Control Time Agenda People
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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Writing Check Commitment Conversation
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Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Heroes Turn Who Tell
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If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Money Institution Alma Employee
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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Forecast Future Nothing Deal
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Business World Rearview Mirror
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What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

Learn History People That
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If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Past History Liberian Richest
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Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
Money Dose Rationality Sedates
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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Convention Route Group Individual
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end

Wise Fool Beginning End
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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Intensity is the price of excellence.
Intensity Price Excellence The
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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Game Focus Won Scoreboard
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You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50% decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Common Stock Value Decrease
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Business Reputation Management Brilliance
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
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Having first-rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Important People Report Team
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It’s hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don’t rest until I achieve something.

Enjoy More Work Achieve
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Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home.

Morning Before Home Solve
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When you have made it in life, you must give back to those who made you.

When Made Life Must
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My grandfather once told me; the soul of business is not making money but making people happy.

Soul Happy Told Not
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To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it.

Succeed You Must Never
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Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don’t go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

Work Hard Have Attain
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Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.
Passion Drive Make Wake
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The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

Understand Most Thing Not
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I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.

Always Chain Then When
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If I had challenges in my company, I would not hesitate to sell assets to remain afloat, to get to the better times, because it doesn’t make any sense for me to keep any assets and then suffocate the whole organization.

Hesitate Better Would Whole
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I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me thirty years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Journey Supreme Dream Build
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Don’t kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

Keep Your Kill The
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