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Wit and Wisdom on Money, Wall Street and Success - Part #1
I love to collect quotes as they concisely promote a philosophy which is readily understandable. In my 25+ years of investing I have collected hundreds of quotes related to Wisdom, Wall Street and Success. I submit this small selection with the hopes that it will enlighten the forces required for your future financial success. Enjoy! 1) "Money really isn't that important. Is a guy with fifty million dollars happier than a guy with forty eight million dollars?" - Milton Berle 2) "With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too." -Yiddish Proverb 3) "Money is always there, but the pockets change." - Gertrude Stein 4) "Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator." - Peter Lynch 5) "Wall Street has a uniquely hysterical way of thinking the world will end tomorrow but be fully recovered in the long run, then a few years later believing the immediate future is rosy but that the long term stinks." - Kenneth L. Fisher, Wall Street Waltz 6) "Central Bankers are brought up pulling the legs off ants." - Paul Volker, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Quoted by William Grieder, Secrets of the Temple 7) "Good judgement is usually the result of experience and experience frequently is the result of bad judgement." - Robert Lovell Quoted by Robert Sobel, Panic on Wall Street 8) "When you realize that you are riding a dead horse the best strategy is to dismount." - Sioux Indian Proverb 9) "To know and not to do is not yet to know." - Zen Saying 10) "Amateurs Focus On Rewards! Professionals Focus on Risk!" -Harald Anderson - Analyst and founder eOptionsTrader.com Harald Anderson is the founder and Chief Analyst of eOptionsTrader.com a leading online resource of Options Trading Information. He writes regularly for financial publications on Risk Management and Trading Strategies. His goal in life is to become the kind of person that his dog already thinks he is. http://www.eOptionsTrader.com.
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News) A nearly 6-year-old news story on the 2002 bankruptcy filing of UAL Corp resurfaced on the Internet on Monday, clobbering the airline's shares as some traders mistook the report as current and plausible news. ABC News hammering out Palin interview plans (Reuters via Yahoo! News) ABC News is spending more time trying to assemble the logistics of its exclusive interview with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin than it did negotiating with the McCain campaign itself. Game news: 'GTA IV' hits 10 million, EA meets ESPN (AP via Yahoo! News) Real news from the virtual world: Column: 'Daily Show' Is One Of Few Fair And Balanced TV News Shows (CBS News) I have this silly little habit of watching the Fox News Channel when I'm bored or in some weird self-loathing state of mind. So for the Republican National Convention, I thought it appropriate to bathe in their conservative credibility instead of the CNN/Barack Obama PDA I witnessed the week before. Google News snafu leads to airline stock plunge (CNET) After an investor news wire service mistakenly highlights a 6-year-old news story (allegedly sans time stamp) about United Airlines filing for bankruptcy, shares of the carrier tank. Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (> required at line 14, column 29) in /home/.hellodolly/jsteiner64/scholarlyarticles.org/investing/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc on line 238 Site: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.hellodolly/jsteiner64/scholarlyarticles.org/investing/inc/ads-body.inc on line 52 MORE RESOURCES: Site: Yahoo! News Search Results for investing Investing for your kids' and your future (CNN Money) Talk about investing in uncertain times. At the beginning of last year, Susanne Elliott was downsized from her management position at a record label. Then, just two months after she found a similar job at a competing firm in August, the bear market struck. 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BRIC Investing: China Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC in 2003, in a global economics presentation designed to introduce their clients to the countries they believed to be the four dominant emerging markets of the future. Puget Sound Energy Investing Heavily in Electric and Natural Gas System Infrastructure to Meet Customer Needs Now and ... (wallstreet:online AG) Puget Sound Energy (utility subsidiary of Puget Energy (NYSE:PSD)) is investing approximately $421 Puget Sound Energy Investing Heavily in Electric and Natural Gas System Infrastructure to Meet Customer Needs Now and ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) BELLEVUE, Wash.----Puget Sound Energy (utility subsidiary of Puget Energy ) is investing approximately $421 million in service-area infrastructure improvements in 2008, of which about $247 million is earmarked for capacity and reliability upgrades, and about $174 million is allocated to meet growing customer needs. 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