"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance."

-- Ron Chernow

#Successful Quotes #Past Quotes #Circles Quotes

“If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.”
“The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.”

Source : JOHN B. JERVIS (1872). “A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS”, p.3
“The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.”
“An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.”
“As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.”
“the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub
“I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.”

Source : Nelson Algren (1999). “The Man with the Golden Arm”, p.415, Seven Stories Press
“Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)”

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