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“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, The Intelligent Investor

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The pretty girl is always right.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“The world’s most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can’t even tell who is who.”
― Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
― Albert Einstein

“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.”
― Helen Rowland

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
― Clive James

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
― Groucho Marx

“An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.”
― William Castle

“Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki”
― Taki

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charlie Schultz

“The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.”
― Herman Wouk

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

“But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
― Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752

“There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some degree, banish for that time all other objects from his thoughts.”
― Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield

“There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in they year, if you will do two things at a time.”
― Earl of Chesterfield

“The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.”
― Earl Of Chesterfield, Earl Of Chesterfield: Letters To His Son Part One