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billyjoe
12-24-2006, 10:54 PM
Dec.24th
A committee is a cul de sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ----Sir Barnett Cocks (Member of Parliament)
----------billyjoe
Feel free to add others
spikefader
12-25-2006, 12:23 AM
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
billyjoe
12-25-2006, 09:45 AM
Dec. 25th
"In the end , we will remember not the words of our enemies , but the silence of our friends"-----Martin Luther King Jr.
--------billyjoe
"The way to come up with good ideas is to come up with a lot of ideas"...IIC
spikefader
12-25-2006, 04:41 PM
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain” William Shakespeare
peanuts
12-25-2006, 04:48 PM
"The way to come up with good ideas is to come up with a lot of ideas"...IIC
Is this the same thing as, "If you want to find something, look everywhere" ?
Runner
12-25-2006, 05:21 PM
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
--Thomas Huxley
Runner
12-25-2006, 05:25 PM
"Lincoln was not great because he was born in a cabin, but becuse he got out of it." -- James Adams
skiracer
12-25-2006, 09:28 PM
"I'll be back". The Terminator.
Is this the same thing as, "If you want to find something, look everywhere" ?
Hey...that's a good one
This is a copy of a post I made last May 27th...Thought it might be appropriate on this thread...I made some up and I stole the rest:
IIC's Sayings To Live By:
Expect the best...but be prepared for the worst
Never dwell on what might have been
The smartest people ask the most questions
The smartest people only need to know one thing...who to call to get the answers
When you are wrong, you are wrong...admit it and get on with it
Let the other person save face ...unless they are a real jerk
Never feel sorry for yourself
Worry takes more effort than action
Never be intimidated
Never be afraid of change
Make your boss look good
Be more prepared than the person sitting across the table
The way to come up with good ideas is to come up with a lot of ideas
Remember your customer's kids names
Value diversity
Try to make the other person feel important
Don't worry if you miss your exit on the freeway...there's another one just around the bend
Never bring up a problem unless you have a solution
No matter how bad it seems...just remember somebody has it worse
Don't dish it out if you can't take it
Never forget anything
It is hard to believe that a person is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in their place
When a person tells you that they will think it over and let you know...you know
He who burns his bridges better be a good swimmer
Get bored easily
There is always a place for the person who says "I'll take care of it"
If you can afford to buy your way out of a problem...you don't have a problem
It isn't the people you fire that make your life miserable...it's the people you don't
A good person never expects anything in return except a "Thank You"
When a telemarketer calls you...tell them that you are busy right now and ask them for their number so you can call them back
Say it with authority and people will believe you
If you find yourself in a bad situation...take immediate action
Have a good sense of humor
Hoping and wishing are excuses for not doing
99% responsibility doesn’t work
We fear the thing we want the most
The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past
People would rather be right than happy
100 years from now no one will care
The one who loves the least controls the relationship
If you require someone to change…you require them to lie to you
You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want
What you are afraid to do is what you need to do next
The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it
You can have anything you want if you give up your belief that you cannot have it
A winner says…”I Will” and a loser says I’ll Try”
Be yourself
billyjoe
12-26-2006, 12:25 PM
Dec. 26th
"The less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must be his judgement of the future"---Sigmund Freud
-----------billyjoe
skiracer
12-26-2006, 12:36 PM
"You can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first" Skiracer - first said in Cambodia 1966 under fire.
Lyehopper
12-26-2006, 01:25 PM
"You can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first" Skiracer - first said in Cambodia 1966 under fire.
My father told told me that one many times as a youngster, as his father also told him.... I think this apt saying pre-dates you a tad there Ski.....
Here's one my daddy used to tell me.... and he says his father would say to him...."Boy! I'm gonna knock the Buck-Waddin' outta you!" SsSsSssss!
skiracer
12-26-2006, 02:38 PM
My father told told me that one many times as a youngster, as his father also told him.... I think this apt saying pre-dates you a tad there Ski.....
Here's one my daddy used to tell me.... and he says his father would say to him...."Boy! I'm gonna knock the Buck-Waddin' outta you!" SsSsSssss!
Sorry Lye that it came out like I was taking credit for the saying. I heard it from another guy in my squad, a southerner from South Carolina whose drawl was so thick you could hardly make out what he was saying even under the best conditions, and I started using it after that whenever we were hoping for something to come thru and it usually never did. It stuck with me for all these years. I never heard my dad use the buck-waddin phrase but another guy that flew with him an always hunted with us used it with his kid and the rest of us kids pretty regularly when they would make us drive the thickest and swampiest pieces of woods in deer hunting season and we would always complain that they always made us do the hardest sections on the drives. My dad always gave the guy permission to do it if I gave him to much crap. He never did though.
billyjoe
12-27-2006, 08:28 AM
Dec. 27th
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go " -----T.S. Elliot
--------billyjoe
"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago"
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
"The only reason we're 7-0 is because we've won all seven of our games."
- David Garcia, baseball team manager
"Sit by the homely girl, you'll look better by comparison."
- Debra Maffett, Miss America 1983
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
- Decca Records Rejecting the Beatles, in 1962
"Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver."
- Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman
"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
- Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears, Pop Singer
"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."
- Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull's team chemistry being overrated
"We're just physically not physical enough."
- Denny Crum, Louisville basketball coach
"Weather forecast: precipitation in the morning, rain in the afternoon."
- Detroit Daily News
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe."
- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia.
"During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails."
- AP report describing Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian
"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
"I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad."
- Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player
"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
- Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
"I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to."
- Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
- Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota.
"Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding."
- Mickey Rivers, baseball player
"I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife."
- Mike Greenwell, Baseball player
"If only faces could talk..."
- Pat Summerall, Sportscaster, during the Super Bowl
"All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium."
- Ralph Kiner, NY Sportscaster
"Solutions are not the answer."
- Richard Nixon, former U.S. President
billyjoe
12-28-2006, 10:59 AM
Dec. 28th
"The knowledge of past times is both an ornament and a nutriment to the human mind"-----Leonardo da Vinci
-------billyjoe
ringo69
12-28-2006, 01:56 PM
"If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches."
- Carolyn Kenmore
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- Carl Edward Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Tatnic
12-28-2006, 02:00 PM
"You can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first" Skiracer - first said in Cambodia 1966 under fire.
another along the lines of war that I came up with:
You can't expect to send young men into hell (ie iraq) and expect them to act like angels.
billyjoe
12-30-2006, 06:39 PM
Dec.29th
"Courage gone ? I'll get more at yon tavern"---Mr. Peabody (newspaper owner in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence")
-----------billyjoe
billyjoe
12-30-2006, 06:45 PM
Dec. 30th
"Before the hanging was carried out in Baghdad, Mr. Bush went to sleep here at the ranch and was not roused when the news came."--New York Times
----------billyjoe
Tatnic
12-31-2006, 09:46 AM
ok...an investing quote I made up:
"If you're constantly trying to make a killing in the stock market, eventually you'll get killed"
"The bastards never forget!"...
Roger "Terrible" Toughy after being released from prison after 26 years when he was shot by gangsters
ok...an investing quote I made up:
"If you're constantly trying to make a killing in the stock market, eventually you'll get killed"
That's pretty darn similar to what I say about my IIC's Killer Watch Lists..."Make a killing or get killed"
Three quotes from Buffet:
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
Tatnic
12-31-2006, 12:18 PM
That's pretty darn similar to what I say about my IIC's Killer Watch Lists..."Make a killing or get killed"
Not at all Doug. My quote was about NOT trying to make a killing on every trade. Its not an either or kind of thing IMO.
Tatnic
12-31-2006, 12:21 PM
Sorry Lye that it came out like I was taking credit for the saying. I heard it from another guy in my squad, a southerner from South Carolina whose drawl was so thick you could hardly make out what he was saying even under the best conditions, and I started using it after that whenever we were hoping for something to come thru and it usually never did. It stuck with me for all these years. I never heard my dad use the buck-waddin phrase but another guy that flew with him an always hunted with us used it with his kid and the rest of us kids pretty regularly when they would make us drive the thickest and swampiest pieces of woods in deer hunting season and we would always complain that they always made us do the hardest sections on the drives. My dad always gave the guy permission to do it if I gave him to much crap. He never did though.
Ski...why were you in Cambodia in '66?
Tatnic
12-31-2006, 12:29 PM
Three quotes from Buffet:
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
That's misleading IMO. That implies that putting all of your investments in a couple of places is less risky than spreading it out among stocks, bonds, gold, cash, real estate, foreign equities, etc. Buffett has holdings in american companies and foriegn companies, silver, short dollars, airlines, tons of insurance companies, shoe makers, dairy queen, coke, sheeshhh, that's hardly a few and I'm sure I'm missing a "few".
But I do agree with his yesterday's growth opinion.
Quote:
Originally Posted by IIC http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=75311#post75311)
Three quotes from Buffet:
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
That's misleading IMO. That implies that putting all of your investments in a couple of places is less risky than spreading it out among stocks, bonds, gold, cash, real estate, foreign equities, etc. Buffett has holdings in american companies and foriegn companies, silver, short dollars, airlines, tons of insurance companies, shoe makers, dairy queen, coke, sheeshhh, that's hardly a few and I'm sure I'm missing a "few".
But I do agree with his yesterday's growth opinion.
In reading many of his other quotes I get the idea that he suggests only investing in businesses you can understand. If you don't understand the business then take a pass. A "Few" holdings may be a subjective term...If you have a $100,000 portfolio maybe a few is 5...If you have a billion dollar portfolio maybe a few is 100???
billyjoe
12-31-2006, 01:45 PM
Dec. 31st
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."----Benjamin Franklin
-----------billyjoe
"Get in...Get Out...Get it over with"...IIC
Tatnic
12-31-2006, 05:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by IIC http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/showthread.php?p=75311#post75311)
Three quotes from Buffet:
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
In reading many of his other quotes I get the idea that he suggests only investing in businesses you can understand. If you don't understand the business then take a pass. A "Few" holdings may be a subjective term...If you have a $100,000 portfolio maybe a few is 5...If you have a billion dollar portfolio maybe a few is 100???
When you put it like that then yes, I agree that he only has a few on a relative basis...especially considering some mutual funds a fraction of Berkshire's size have hundreds of positions.
I don't recall where you posted that response about chinese companies Doug, but you're right, there's plenty of corruption over there. In fact, now that you mention it I recall reading somewhere that 2 of the most corrupt countries in terms of business dealings are china and india. Something to do with bribes in order to win business contracts. And I assume that russia is right up there with them but that's just an assumption.
When you put it like that then yes, I agree that he only has a few on a relative basis...especially considering some mutual funds a fraction of Berkshire's size have hundreds of positions.
I don't recall where you posted that response about chinese companies Doug, but you're right, there's plenty of corruption over there. In fact, now that you mention it I recall reading somewhere that 2 of the most corrupt countries in terms of business dealings are china and india. Something to do with bribes in order to win business contracts. And I assume that russia is right up there with them but that's just an assumption.
It was on Peanuts thread
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