"There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later,"

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Source : Leon Levy, Eugene Linden (2009). “The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market”, p.8, PublicAffairs

Leon Levy

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“Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.”
“When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.”

Source : Charles Fletcher Dole (1897). “The Coming People”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
“The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ”
“I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.”
“Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.”
“It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.”
“Practice yourself what you preach.”

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