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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

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”
― Ayn Rand

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
― Jean-Luc Godard