"By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed."
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"Perhaps the most important rule is to hold on to your winners and cut your losers. Both are equally important. If you don’t stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers."
"All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work."
"Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day."
"Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!"
"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."
"A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay."
"Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it."
"The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'"
"Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
"There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion."
"If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts."
"To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them."
"Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already."
"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."
"It is the customer that pays the wages"
"I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day."
"but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."