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If you spend most of your spare time on Netflix, don't expect to have the same outcome as one who spends hers reading. You have different habits.
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What you must understand is no matter what you are doing you are in a habit. If you are not deliberately forging the right habits, then you are deliberately forging the wrong habits
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So he that can find no other way for correcting the errors of his people but by taking from them the conveniences of life, shows that he knows not what it is to govern a free nation.
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Let him live upon what belongs to him without wronging others, and accommodate his expense to his revenue.
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He himself ought rather to shake off his sloth, or to lay down his pride, for the contempt or hatred that his people have for him takes its rise from the vices in himself.
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Nor is it so becoming the dignity of a king to reign over beggars as over rich and happy subjects.
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He is an unskillful physician that cannot cure one disease without casting his patient into another.
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Fabricius, a man of a noble and exalted temper, said ‘he would rather govern rich men than be rich himself; since for one man to abound in wealth and pleasure when all about him are mourning and groaning, is to be a gaoler and not a king.'
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Let him punish crimes, and, by his wise conduct, let him endeavor to prevent them, rather than be severe when he has suffered them to be too common.
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If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by oppression and ill usage, and by rendering them poor and miserable,...
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Thomas More's words resonate 505years after they were 1st published. It's incredible how apropos these words are to the political class today - Just replace "king" with the appropriate title and it'll read like he is familiar with the Nigerian society.
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...it were certainly better for him to quit his kingdom than to retain it by such methods as make him, while he keeps the name of authority, lose the majesty due to it.
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For every dollar you make in this way you will be lucky if you end up by losing only two
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Ben Graham
Of course the salesman will point to many such issues which have had good-sized market advances - including some that go up spectacularly the very day they are sold. But all this is part of the speculative atmosphere. It is easy money.
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An elementary requirement of the intelligent investor is an ability to resist the blandishments of salesmen offering new common-stock issues [read: coins] during bull markets.
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Even if 1 or 2 can be found that can pass severe test of quality and value, it is probably bad policy to get mixed up in this sort of business
An elementary requirement of the intelligent investor is an ability to resist the blandishments of salesmen offering new common-stock issues [read: coins] during bull markets.
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When eNaira API?
Follow your genius closely enough and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour...
The value of a man is not in his skin that we should touch him...
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a Dervish in the desert...
We are, for the most part, more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers
I had this advantage, at least in my mode of life, over those who are obliged to look abroad for amusement to society and d theatre, that my life itself was becoming my amusement & never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without an end
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude...
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.
Walden.
Henry David Thoreau
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.
Benjamin Graham
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour.
Henry David Thoreau
The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble