"I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can envision these tech companies as the underdog anymore. They're always presented as though they were these little guys who you should be championing - Facebook will overthrow the cable television complex, blah blah - but it's more likely they will merge with them."

-- Astra Taylor

#Mean Quotes #Guy Quotes #Underdog Quotes

“Believing in everything at the same time is the same as not believing in anything at all.”
“I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.”
“I don't know that sex always has to have feelings, but I think that friendship always does.”
“I am still an Indonesian citizen.”
“We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.”
“I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “Wild Mountain Thyme”, p.90, Macmillan
“I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.”
“So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of safety. The upside, while still difficult to quantify, will usually take care of itself. In other words, look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you donâ€™t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.”

Source : Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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