William J. O'Neil Quotes

The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.

William J. O'Neil

• Waiting
• Humans
• Bigger
• Investors
• Hoping
• Reasonable

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• I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Think
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  • Luxury

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
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• It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Secret
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• Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Time
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• I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Play
  • Back
  • Magazine

• I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Focus

• We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

  

  Iman
  • House
  • Early
  • Press

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Education
  • Food

• If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Song
  • Moon
  • Coffee

• I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Practice

• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
  • Law
  • Hand

• There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • She
  • High
  • Alone

• The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Violence

• I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Reading
  • Author

• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

  

  Jimmy Rushing

• The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?

  

  Alan Mulally
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• Playing on Saturdays, seeing 75,000 people yell your name, 88, ASJ, and all of that stuff is great.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Great

• I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Up
  • Time
  • Career

• I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Children
  • Care
  • Grow Up

• The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.

  

  William J. O'Neil
  • Waiting
  • Humans
  • Bigger