SELF

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things other do not like to do. They do not like doing them either  necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose  “

E. M. Gray: The Common Denominator of Success

SELF

“Obviously these experiences and behaviors are not inherently good, bad, better, best, or right—they are different. They are just experiences. What distinguishes each of them as something to be cherished and sought (or fared and avoided) is the individual perspective with which each is viewed “

Gordon and Meyers: Phoenix 

INVESTING

“Always sell what shows you a loss and keep  what shows you a profit. “

Jesse Livermore: Reminiscences of a  stock operator

INVESTING

“Never, ever, follow conventional wisdom in the markets. You have to go counter to the markets. You have to learn how to think for yourself: to be able to see that the emperor has no clothes”

James B. Rogers, Jr.

INVESTING

“Perhaps psychologist should analyze this. Some corporations, like some individuals, juts can not stand prosperity.”

Peter  Lynch: One up on Wall Street 

SELF

“Great people are ordinary people with extraordinary amounts of determination”.

Anonymous

SELF

“When one has successfully extended on limits, one  has then grown into a larger state of being. Thus the act of loving is an act of self-evolution, even when the purpose of the act is someone else’s growth. It is reaching toward evolution that we evolve”.

Scott Peck: The road less traveled

INVESTING

“It is not whether you are right or wrong that is important, but how much money you make when you are right and how much you loose when you are wrong. The few times that Soros has ever criticized me was when I was really right on a market and didn’t maximize the opportunity”.

Stanley Druckenmiller

INVESTING

“I probably do more mental exercise now than I ever did. Each morning while I am driving to work, I make a conscious effort to relax. I mentally rehearse any conflict that might happen that day.“

Tom Basso

INVESTING

“Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do.”

Philip A.  Fisher:Common Stocks and uncommon profits

SELF

“The true self is like and empty sky: vast, silent, unchanging. It is pure consciousness, pure existence.”

James Sloman: Nothing