Ivan Boesky famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
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My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.
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What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it.
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I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."
-- Ivan Boesky
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Think it over, think it under.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
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You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.
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You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.
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We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress for our heart we need these small gestures that make us feel good Tenderness is a disinterested and generous love, that does not ask anything else to be understood and appreciated.
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I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
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