Quotes about years
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. Warren Buffett
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?
years adequate strange
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
years six form
some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six
years once-upon-a-time television
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..." William Bennett
years family-and-friends littles
Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I. Wendy Wasserstein
years space pay
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends. Wernher von Braun
years dating radio
You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time. Werner Herzog
years upstairs
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
years games getting-high
Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse. Wayne Rooney
years views evening
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me. Wallace Shawn
years vanity people
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
years giving effort
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.