"Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical."

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Source : "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

Arthur Levitt Jr

#Emotional Quotes #Views Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.”
“The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.”
“I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a single, quite simple magnetic force. This physical conception is to be presented through calculation and geometry.”
“Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow,”

Source : "Weekend Update" with Jane Curtin, snltranscripts.jt.org. January 15, 1977.
“Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.”
“I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.”
“I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.”
“It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.”

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