Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on ONE hand...', then 'but on the other...”
― Harry Truman

“Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

“why they studied economics, and they’d explain that it was the most practical course of study, even while they spent their time drawing funny little graphs.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
― Warren Buffett

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
― Warren Buffett

“When my parents weren’t watching the news, they were either waiting to watch the news or recovering from watching the news. The news confirmed their feeling that things were terrible everywhere, and there was nothing anyone could do about it apart from keep abreast of developments. I’ve avoided the news ever since.”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928