"Quotes" worth quoting

angelnish · August 14, 2012, 2:51am

You can be free. You can live and work anywhere in the world. You can be independent from routine and not answer to anybody. This is the life of a successful trader. Many aspire to this but few succeed. An amateur looks at a quote screen and sees millions of dollars sparkle in front of his face. He reaches for the money - and loses. He reaches again - and loses more. Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both. - ALEXANDER ELDER

psaini1973 · August 15, 2012, 5:37am

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. “Mahatma Gandhi”
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. “Confucius”

psaini1973 · August 15, 2012, 5:53am

The difference between running and walking is a lot more apparent when you have to go to the bathroom.
What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere?
‘Hold my purse.’
The road to success is always under construction.
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong
If you don’t succeed at first, hide all evidence that you tried.
Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.
Men are like bank accounts.
Without a lot of money they don’t generate a lot of interest.
If there is a “WILL”, there are 500 relatives.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is ‘never try’
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.

Clint · August 15, 2012, 9:27am

“The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

"We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

Who said it?

• George Soros, outlining his vision for a one-world government, at the 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos

• Mao Zedong, first Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (1945-1976)

• Fidel Castro, Prime Minister (1959-1976) and President (1976-2008) of Cuba

• Saul Alinsky, author of [I]Rules for Radicals,[/I] 1971

• O’Brien (no first name), agent of the Thought Police, describing IngSoc, in the 1948 novel [I]1984[/I]

• Niccolo Machiavelli, author of [I]The Prince,[/I] 1532

• Barack Obama, U.S. president (2009-present), describing plans for his second term

• John Preston (Christian Bale), describing the dystopian city-state Libria, in the 2002 film [I]Equilibrium[/I]

• Gary Gensler, Chairman of the CFTC, describing his plan to make the CFTC the World Forex Police

• none of the above

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bobmaninc · August 15, 2012, 9:33am

obrian 1984 novel

Clint · August 15, 2012, 9:40am

Very good, sir. And very fast!

bobmaninc · August 15, 2012, 9:59am

Well what did I win lol

I guess I can not take all the credit. Google as a powerful tool if you ask the right question

angelnish · August 16, 2012, 2:54am

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim Carrey

angelnish · August 17, 2012, 5:01am

Panics do not destroy capital—they merely reveal the extent to which it has previously been
destroyed by its betrayal in hopelessly unproductive works.-----Michael W. Covel

TalonD · August 19, 2012, 5:54pm

This is one of my favorites. I used to watch a British TV show called Rumpole of the Baily and that was something he quoted. I like the way he referred to his wife… “she who must be obeyed”

TalonD · August 19, 2012, 6:00pm

“Sometimes you just have to get out of the boat and start walking”

-me

Clint · August 19, 2012, 8:42pm

“It is easier to [I]stay[/I] out of trouble than it is to [I]get[/I] out of trouble.”

Warren Buffett

On the other hand …

“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopp

TalonD · August 19, 2012, 8:52pm

“One ‘Oh Sh1t’ wipes out a whole lot of ataboys”

OOPs · August 20, 2012, 2:42am

Just saw this in a book I was reading!

                 Rule No. 1:
              Never lose money.
                 Rule No. 2:
         Never forget Rule No. 1.
                            —Warren Buffett

bobmaninc · August 20, 2012, 3:21pm

The English Plural according to…

George Carlin

We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and there would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

Let’s face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England.

We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing,
Grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?

Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
What do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

We ship by truck but send cargo by ship…
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
And in which an alarm goes off by going on.

And in closing…

If Father is Pop, how come Mother’s not Mop.???

angelnish · August 21, 2012, 3:50am

“Experienced traders control risk, inexperienced traders chase gains.” -Alan Farley

thirdmouse · August 21, 2012, 8:32pm

“Whether you think you can do a thing or think that you cannot do a thing, you are absolutely correct.” Henry Ford

Banker928 · August 22, 2012, 12:44pm

“A fool and his money are soon parted…”

Master_Tang · August 23, 2012, 1:04am

A quote that leads to a question:

“You’ve got your whole life/future ahead of you.”

Ummmm… duhhh…

And exactly what is the point?

angelnish · August 23, 2012, 2:44am

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game,
the stakes, and quitting time------Michael W. Covel