Quotes about wall
wall believe might
In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it. Bear Bryant
wall giving thank-god
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
wall hype people
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation. Benjamin Graham
wall important investing
Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.
wall average investing
To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
wall people attention
there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.
wall past investing
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
wall loss years
... the loss of public confidence in the financial community growing out of its own conduct in recent years. I insist that more damage has been done to stock values and to the future of equities from inside Wall Street than from outside Wall Street.
wall loss energy
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.
wall accomplishment may
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
wall simple different
I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
wall years people
If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to happen to the stock market.
wall forget-everything people
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
wall prudent principles
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
wall may profit
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
wall sitting left
Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat. Bruce Nauman
wall blue way
To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts. Bruce Springsteen
wall chinese emeralds
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period. Brian Aldiss
wall finance easier
It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.
wall paradise doe
There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown. Jane Hirshfield
wall kids thinking
As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish. Jamie Bell
wall america saws
Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right. Jamie Dimon
wall inspiration heart
The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized. Charles Fillmore
wall writing waiting
Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it. Charles Bukowski
wall fate men
alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.
wall drinking wine
Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
wall waiting moss
there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting
wall writing failing
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
wall heart fighting
I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it kept the heart alive.
wall white doe
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily. Ben Bernanke
wall doe crash
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
wall men leaving
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall. Arthur Golden
wall writing pistols
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there. Anton Chekhov