Laurence D. Fink famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
-- Laurence D. Fink

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When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
-- Laurence D. Fink

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I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.
-- Laurence D. Fink

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in oneâ€™s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in â€“ into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

Laurence D. Fink famous quotes

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