Marc Brander > Marc's Quotes

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
― Confucius

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.”
― Howard Marks

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”
― Warren Buffett

“Whose bread I eat, his song I sing”
― German Proverb

“Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
― Yogi Berra

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

“I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”
― Charles T. Munger, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

“What a man wishes he generally believes to be true”
― Demosthenes

“I can explain it to you, but I can't make you understand it.”
― R. Gaston, The War Within: Civil War Post Traumatic Stress and the culture conflict in West Texas

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
― Mark Twain