"Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency."

-- Seth Klarman

#Swings Quotes #Feels Quotes #Investors Quotes

“Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.”
“Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.”

Source : "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.
“letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
“That's my only goal: Stay off crack.”
“Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.6
“I went to college. West Point is technically a college.”
“There are times when one's life appears to be a stage. People come, people go. They come in order to go, and go with no intent of return. When they return, they return as one's past. A past that would make you feel that the present is false.”
“The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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