Charles Dow (Charles Henry Dow) Quotes

The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.

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• Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Real
  • Magic
  • Relationships

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • You
  • Strong
  • I Can

• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Broken
  • Speaking
  • One Thing

• Regulation creates a moral hazard.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Regulation
  • Hazard

• You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Problem
  • Vision

• I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • House
  • Determined

• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Done
  • Technology
  • Rule

• I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings.

  

  Ian Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Support

• I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Relationship

• It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.

  

  Gabe Jennings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Running

• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Patience
  • Preaching

• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • System
  • Glad
  • Laborer

• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Habit
  • Acquire
  • Good Action

• Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Crime
  • Human being
  • Respected

• Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Decisions
  • Result
  • Consequences

• Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Interesting
  • Results
  • Truthful

• I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Ideas
  • Results
  • Promotion

• We read the future by the past.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Read

• The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.

  

  Charles Dow
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