"You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself"

-- Warren Buffett

#Effort Quotes #Nuance Quotes #Language Quotes

“I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.”
“What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.”
“I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.”
“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”
“The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.”

Source : Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.57, Red Wheel/Weiser
“Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and thatâ€™s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
“Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.”
“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”

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