"The courage to press on regardless--regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us--is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor."

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Source : "A Tale of Two Markets". Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, www.vanguard.com. April 16, 2001.

John C. Bogle

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“I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.”
“But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big ways. We're writing things that might make people think about people a little bit, but we're not that important. I think a lot of writers think we are incredibly important. I don't feel like that about my fiction. I feel like it's quite a selfish thing at heart. I want to tell a story. I want someone to listen to me. And I love that, but I don't think I deserve the moon on a stick because I do that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...”
“If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day”
“I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”
“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

Source : Robert E Howard “Conan the Barbarian”, Lulu.com
“Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.”
“The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.”

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