"But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable—to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment—to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them."

Source : Guy Spier (2014). “The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment”, p.20, Palgrave Macmillan

Guy Spier

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.”
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”
“My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.”
“Italy is a geographical expression.”

Source : Discussing the Italian question with Palmerston in 1847. 'Aus dem Nachlasse des Grafen Prokesch- Osten' (1881) vol. 2, p. 343; and Mèmoires, Documents, etc. de 'Metternich publiès par son fils' (1883) vol. 7, p. 415
“I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.”
“Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.”
“The public is always right.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.”

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