Quotes - Sarah Mayers (Wayne, PA) Showing 1-18 of 18

#1

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: business, habits, hare, inspirational-life, reading, think, thinking, tortoise, warren-buffet

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#2

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
― Warren Buffet

tags: boats, warren-buffet

193 likes

#3

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ”
― Warren Buffett

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#4

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”
― Warren Buffett

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#5

“How to find a good spouse?
-the best single way is to deserve a good spouse.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

tags: love, married-life, spouse

155 likes

#6

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

tags: everything

226 likes

#7

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

tags: reading-books, reading-habits, wisdom-of-winners

375 likes

#8

“Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?”
― Charles T. Munger, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

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#9

“Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets—and can be lost in a heartbeat.”
― Charles T. Munger, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

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#10

“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

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#11

“Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”
― Charlie Munger

tags: goals-priorities, intelligence, smart

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#12

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a board subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed how much Warren reads - and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

tags: wise-life

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#13

“I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do”
― Charlie Munger

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#14

“Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
― Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

tags: academics, charlie-munger, meaningful, measurement, warren-buffett

28 likes

#15

“Trust is vital. In order for investors to have us steward their capital, a prerequisite is that they trust us.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

tags: capital, hendrith-smith, investment, private-equity, trust

6 likes

#16

“Companies with high talent density have a permeable competitive advantage that makes them very difficult to beat.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

tags: business-quotes, human-capital, human-resources, talent-density

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#18

“Stewarding capital is about responsibly turning two good things into one hundred good things; it’s about turning seeds into forests.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

tags: business, capital, hendrith-smith, mayflower-plymouth

3 likes

#19

“Stewarding capital is about turning seeds into forests.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

tags: business, capital, hendrith-smith, investing

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