"Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time."

-- Ben Stein

#Long Quotes #Trying Quotes #Warren Buffet Quotes

“95% of everything you do is the result of habit.”
“To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.”
“It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her or control her. She is yours because you can say anything to her, whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to.”
“The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.54, Penguin
“We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott (2005). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.416, Oxford University Press, USA
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.”
“I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.”
“Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.”

Source : "Sibelius: The Symphonies" by Cecil Gray, London: Oxford University Press, (p. 56), 1935.

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