“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
― Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Taiwan Readers
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A group for readers in Taiwan. Hopefully, we can get an online book club going.
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