"Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you donâ€™t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones."

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Source : Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Joel Greenblatt

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“Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don't like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don't like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don't.”
“Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were ***** and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
“I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.”
“Remember, all things are possible to those who believe!”
“Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.”
“The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.”

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