"Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity."

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Source : David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

David Dreman

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“Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.”
“A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.”
“America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.”
“Throughout my life, I have been fascinated by predictability and frustrated by our inability to predict. I don't believe it makes sense for our generation to believe or pretend that we can solve the problems of the future because do not understand what these problems will be. Just do this thought experiment: Imagine you're in month of May 1914, and try to work out a plan of action for the next 100 years! Hardly anything will make sense.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.”
“Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kelloggâ€™s Pop-Tarts box that says, â€œWarning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.”

Source : Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.187, Vintage
“It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.”
“Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.”

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