Thursday, November 13, 2014

Some Notable Quotations



Great minds discuss ideas.  Average minds discuss events.  Small minds discuss people.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is the middle age, when the eager passions of youth is cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun.
[To the young:] Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Learn from the mistakes of others.  You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you will be criticized anyway.   
Today is the oldest you have ever been, and the youngest you will ever be again.
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life.  In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
Women are like teabags.  We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 
Happiness is not a goal…it is a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt.


All of us face hard choices in our lives.  Life is about making such choices.  Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.

Hillary Clinton

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
(Unknown)

The worst investment you can have is cash. .... Cash is going to become worth less over time. But good businesses are going to become worth more over time.  Of course, that's not to say that having a cash buffer for emergencies is a bad thing. However, having piles of cash -- tens upon tens of thousands of dollars in cash -- is a great way to guarantee a terrible return on a very large pile of money.
Warren Buffett