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To: ~digs who wrote (1)	2/21/2004 3:41:21 AM
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miscellaneous quotes: "Chance favors the informed mind." "When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue." "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." "Opportunity knocks once -- but temptation leans on the buzzer." "I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." "All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." "There are two secrets to becoming great. One is never to reveal all that you know." "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drilling rights on George Bush's head." "The stone age did not finish for lack of stones, and so the oil era will not be over for lack of oil" "Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight." "In making speculation a business, one automatically keeps an eye on all markets for the big opportunities." "I know nothing about commodities, except that I must use many of them, repeatedly, at higher prices if necessary." "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." "A man who persists in stalking game in a place where there is none may wait forever without finding any success. Persistence in search is not enough." "Deceit as a way of life is ubiquitous. Animals hide, mimic, change color, play dead to avoid predators; people disguise themselves, hallucinate, dream, forget and lie to avoid reality, but unlike animals they also lie to themselves." "Think about the game behind the game in life, think what is more important to you, the game or the fame, or playing the game in a way that brings you only fame, or giving up the fame to be able to play the game, this game is life and in your life there is only one player...you" "Success rarely accrues as the result of a few monumental decisions. The degree to which we achieve or fail, is determined by thousands of incremental choices which either slightly improve or slightly degrade our odds over time. Success accrues as a result of consistently good decision-making, in small matters." "At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-- whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being-- studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits." "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other." "It is common wisdom today that the key to building wealth is taking risks. People who take higher risks get the higher returns and wealth.There are risk/return graphs in investment and business that prove this. Most of us by now have heard that stocks have higher risk and volatility but higher returns over time than investments like bonds. New entrepreneurial ventures have higher risk and failure rates than established businesses and tend to create greater fortunes. And this is definitely true. But here is the paradox I have learned through many years of hands-on business experience with successful people:The best entrepreneurs, executives, and investors I have worked with who actually achieve the highest returns and build the most wealth don't see it that way! Despite often being involved in unproven ventures and changing management or investments, they don't perceive that they are taking big risks at all. They are simply doing the obvious. They are very definite that what they are doing or investing in must and will succeed. They have a clear understanding of change and fundamental trends that seem all but inevitable to them. They appear risky and unclear only to people who don't understand such changes and naturally cling to familiar patterns that are more comfortable."