Quotes about year
years done research
After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week. William Henry Bragg
years goofy my-sister
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old. Will Smith
years clothes jerusalem
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old. Warren Ellis
years want lasts
I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.
years ideas oil
Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that. Warren Beatty
years shy gains
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. Warren Buffett
years waste investment
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
years games two
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.
years investing information
With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.
years opinion interest
We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.
years investment minutes
It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.
years decision lasts
It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.
years three partners
I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".
years buffets investing
I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.
years minutes feels
If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
years two long
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.
years mentor cost
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
years tables six
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
years today return
The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.
years march faster
Comrade life, let us march faster, March faster through what's left of the five-year plan. Vladimir Mayakovsky
years design wish
I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time. Vivienne Westwood
years people looks
When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.
years drawing done
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed. Vincent Van Gogh
years eugenics people
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. Vladimir Lenin
years class politics
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
years two three
We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
years together six
I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and listened to all of them. These definitely have at least a superficial relationship to each other because they're all very spare. Will Oldham
years play doctors
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years. Walter Cronkite
years calling savages
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.
years century
The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
years age three
We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time. Virginia Woolf
years one-day made
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
years mind body
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?