"The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent,"

-- Seth Klarman

#Successful Quotes #People Quotes #Majority Quotes

“I don`t know who Donald Trump has in mind given that the circle of loyalists around him, the circle of people that he genuinely trusts is very small and getting smaller all the time.”
“Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.”
“One thing about my mother is that she has her taste: She knows what she likes and what looks good. It's not studied. There is no insecurity in what she is going to wear, and I think that translates into effortlessness. Her career has been a steady rise, and it hasn't been about the fashion of the moment. It's been because she has kept to her style. She didn't go grunge when it was grunge, or 70's when it was 70's. It's about being secure with what you like and not worrying about what's in fashion that particular day. That's what I admire about her.”
“James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world.”
“I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar KhayyÃ¡m. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.”
“Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.”
“When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.”
“If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.”

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