Aniket Doke

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali

“(“The expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself.”—de la Vega.)”
― John Brooks, Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

“In his recent book “The Great Ascent,” Robert L. Heilbroner had cited an estimate that for every cent by which copper prices drop on the New York market the Chilean treasury lost four million dollars; by that standard, Chile’s potential loss on copper alone was $1,760,000.”
― John Brooks, Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

“One of de la Vega’s observations about the Amsterdam traders was that they were “very clever in inventing reasons” for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices,”
― John Brooks, Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street