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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.
Warren Buffet
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
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I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
Willie Nelson
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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.
Francis of Assisi
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
Condoleezza Rice
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
Condoleezza Rice
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader
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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
Clint Eastwood
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan
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The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
Kinky Friedman
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S Truman
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In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
Pope Francis
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Imelda Marcos
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I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.
Jimmy Carter
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Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officia
Reid Hoffman
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
Jimmy Carter
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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Lady Bird Johnson
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul
20thCentury
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I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President
Roger Ebert
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Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.
Strive Masiyiwa
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Historically, this has not been possible. Now, it is possible using the internet. Classical democracy is due for an overhaul. We need a direct democracy, where the citizens make decisions directly on policy, and where experts are selected by people to decide on particular matters
Mark Essien
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This is a historic day for our nation, for it marks an important milestone in our march towards a maturing democracy. For the first time since we cast off the shackles of colonialism almost a half-century ago, we have at last managed an orderly transition from one elected government to another.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
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One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
Bernard Meltzer
Great virtues
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Of all the electoral victories, the one dearest to my heart is the governorship result in Imo State. The ordinary people finally elected their own leader.
Ugezu J. Ugezu
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I celebrated 'International Day of Democracy' yesterday by doing nothing, because democratically elected leaders can do whatever they want.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
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I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.
Shirley Chisholm
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Stop arresting critics and proffer solutions to the problems you were elected to solve.The constitution allows freedom of expression and assembly.
Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo
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A hot tip for elected officials afraid of primaries: If you would like to survive a challenge, consider being a better public servant. You have the advantage; you have the power to deliver for people! If you’re not doing it, that’s on you.
Amanda Litman
Elected official
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We need new elected leaders at the local, state, and federal level who are very specifically committed to ending poverty.
Charles Booker
Need new
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The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
Jim Brown
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Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.
John Templeton
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Fuel subsidy is an organised crime and I will remove it immediately, if I am elected President.
Peter Obi
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