Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime."
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Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
Melinda Gates
Philanthropist, businesswoman
"When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it."
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"The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient."
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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
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"Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense."
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"Always associate yourself with people who are better than you."
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"Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game."
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"All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change."
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"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."
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"The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings"
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"Never invest in a business you can't understand"
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"The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money."
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"The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone."
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"Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it."
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"Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you."
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"The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."
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"When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward."
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"When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year."
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"Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong."
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"We continue to make more money when snoring than when active."
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"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."
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"If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume."
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