Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
SIMILAR QUOTES
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
He who fears to weep should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Buy cheap and sell dear.
Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
