"Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it."

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Source : William J. Bernstein (2009). “The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between”, John Wiley & Sons

William J. Bernstein

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“We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.”

Source : Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.5, Vintage
“Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.”
“my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.”

Source : Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine, Winter 2005.
“A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.”
“What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward the middles of ponds or sent down autumn brooks, holding treasures of acorns, or black feathers, or a puzzled mantis? Let those grassy crafts be listed alongside the iron hulls that cleave the sea, for they are all improvisations built from the daydreams of men, and all will perish, whether from the ocean siege or October breeze.”
“Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?”
“I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Answers in Genesis"/"Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD (Official)", www.youtube.com. February 4, 2014.
“Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.”

Source : "The Mistresses : Domestic Scandals of the 19th-Century Monarchs". Book by Betty Kelen, 1993.

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