"The speculator is not an investor."

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Edwin Lefevre

#Investors Quotes

“A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.”

Source : "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.
“Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.”
“Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.”
“If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.”
“Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.”
“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.43, Granta Books
“You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.”
“I sucked blood from one of my best friends”

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