"Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own."

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Source : Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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“White in the moon the long road lies.”
“It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1964). “A seizure of limericks”
“If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”
“I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.”

Source : "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.
“In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What's the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares!”
“There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.”
“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.”
“There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules ... but there's one little rub. They forget that advertising is persuasion, and persuasion is not a science, but an art. Advertising is the art of persuasion.”

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