Kenneth Fisher Quotes
Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.
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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
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I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer questions.
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Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.
