Mark Mobius Quotes

The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.

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• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Men
  • Law
  • Liberty

• When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Real
  • Say
  • Stand

• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Sometimes
  • Three
  • Cookie

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • You

• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Energy
  • Myself
  • Limit

• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Care
  • Win
  • Environmental

• I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Christmas

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Buying

• I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Friends
  • Making
  • Corporate

• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Business
  • Mirror

• I spend my own money, not other people's money.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Money
  • My Own

• Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • True
  • Cutting
  • Insurance

• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Power
  • Constitution

• I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

  

  Jamie Oliver
  • Romantic

• It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.

  

  Mark Mobius
  • People
  • Work
  • Live