Edwin Lefevre Quotes

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

Edwin Lefevre

• Money
• Think
• Desires
• Sell

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• I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Money
  • Like
  • Worry

• I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Think
  • Years

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

  

  Imelda May
  • Women
  • Think
  • Like

• It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Better

• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Think
  • Years
  • Reputation

• You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Films

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Kind

• I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Saying

• I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Loving
  • WIld

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Extremism is a complicated issue, but without addressing how it appeals to men and boys, we may be missing an important motivation and a way to address the problems in our towns and cities.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Men
  • Important
  • May

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Understand
  • Find
  • Start

• I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

  

  Trisha Goddard
  • Stop
  • Hanging Out
  • Drining

• But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Money
  • Think
  • Desires