Quotes

Here are some insightful quotes that apply to business and life:

#1

“Money makes a good servant but a poor master”, Francis Bacon

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#2

“Gold lies on the streets and you just need to dig it up with ideas. Ideas are like the shovel.”, Peter Florjancic

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#3

“Fish see the bait but not the hook, men see the profit but not the peril”, Chinese proverb

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#4

“I think you can count on more booms and busts over your remaining lifetime. How big and with what cyclicality, I can’t tell you. I can tell you the best way of coping, which is just to put your head down and behave credibly every day.”, Charlie Munger

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#5

“The USA had four million people here in 1790. We’re not more intelligent than people in China, which then had 290 million people, or Europe, which had 50 million. We didn’t work harder, we didn’t have a better climate, and we didn’t have better resources. But we definitely had a system that unleashes potential. This system works. Since then, we’ve been through at least 15 recessions, a civil war, a Great Depression…All of these things happen. But this country has optimized human potential, and it’s not over yet.”, Warren Buffett

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#6

“A man who doubles his income does not double his happiness. The widely held view that money makes you happier is a snare.”, Ronald Inglehart

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#7

“The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe”, John Walter Wayland