Benjamin Graham Quotes
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.Benjamin Graham
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader -
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
Xavier Becerra -
Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
Larenz Tate -
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
Jacob Epstein -
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Umberto Eco -
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
Edmund Hillary -
I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
Page McConnell -
I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
Orlando Bloom -
I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
Karen Gillan -
The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
Hanna Rosin -
So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
G. Willow Wilson
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
Harbhajan Singh -
You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.
Barry Sternlicht -
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
Beck -
I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
Mackenzie Davis -
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
Barbara Jordan -
The big thing is that you know what you want.
Earl Nightingale
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I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
Nate Silver -
You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.
Jim Cramer -
My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the hell out of 'em, you know? Finally in 1961, I don't know, I guess I was about 15, I got serious about it. My parents bought me a little drum set and I was playing for about 6 months when I started doing gigs.
Carmine Appice Cactus -
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.
Michel Foucault -
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
Benjamin Graham