cameronfen Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Last Saturday I ran 10 km in 50 minutes, and I could have run longer… Who on the board does better than me? ;D ;) Cheers, Gio Long ago when I actually ran, my 10k personal record was 34.14: http://gocaltech.com/sports/track/2009-10/releases/T-FRecordFalls_0910 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 Long ago when I actually ran, my 10k personal record was 34.14: http://gocaltech.com/sports/track/2009-10/releases/T-FRecordFalls_0910 Wow! Impressive! I certainly cannot get even close to your personal record, but I surely could run faster: 10 km in 50 minutes is just my basic training schedule. :) Cheers, Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 "There are more idiots in the stock market than I previously thought. And I had low expectations.” - S. Biglari. “It’s not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity and make it work for you,” Frank Zappa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay21 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try if you can to belong to the first class, there is far less competition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Golf is a game played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears. --Bobby Jones From the book [amazonsearch]Crazy is a Compliment[/amazonsearch] by Linda Rottenberg, Co-founder and CEO of Endeavor. Highly recommended! :) Cheers, Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 “The key to tennis is to win the last point,” Jim Courier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VersaillesinNY Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own. Baron de Rothschild The five most expensive words in investing are, this time it is different. John Templeton The trade has increased so much over the last five years that everybody is now involved: women, old people, even children. De la Vega - Confusion de Confusiones The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman The greatest enemies of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzCactus Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 "The man who dies rich, dies disgraced," Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petec Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 It's not really a quote, but Andrew Carnegie had it on his library wall and I love it: The gods send thread for the web begun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VersaillesinNY Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates Experience is a comb that life gives to you when you have become bald. Ringo Bonavena Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. John Barrymore A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. Wilma Askinas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. John Barrymore Ahahah!!!! Great quote!! ;D Cheers, Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzCactus Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 "What goes up must come down" ---Newton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cayale Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 "Everybody has a plan, 'til they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 For quotes I love many by Robert A. Heinlein. Here's a few: "Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy." "Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again." "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss." "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." "Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life" "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." "One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." "Being right too soon is socially unacceptable." "No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority." "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal." "Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong — but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong." "Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers." "A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain." "There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." "The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger." "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." "Progress doesn't come from early risers -- progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." "You live and learn. Or you don't live long." "The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it -- once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth." "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. John Barrymore Ahahah!!!! Great quote!! ;D Cheers, Gio “The most expensive sex is free sex,” Woody Allen. "I don't pay prostitutes for sex, I pay them to leave," Charlie Sheen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 To know ten thousand things, master one. --Miyamoto Musashi, a 16th-century samurai who had over 60 confirmed kills with a sword. A quote I have found in the April 2015 issue of MAXIM!! ;D ;D Cheers, Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. --Charlie Munger All you have to do is sit there and wait…there’s no easier game than stocks. You have to be sure you don’t play too often. --Warren Buffett Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 "The stock picking industry is four or five percent super rational, disciplined people. The rest of them are sort of like faith healers or shamans." ;) Charlie Munger at this years DJCO annual meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent,” Isaac Newton. "He that have patience can have what he will," Ben Franklin. "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else," George Savile. "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" William Shakespeare. "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures," Lao Tzu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent,” Isaac Newton. "He that have patience can have what he will," Ben Franklin. "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else," George Savile. "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" William Shakespeare. "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures," Lao Tzu Fantastic quotes! :) Thank you very much, Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent,” Isaac Newton. "He that have patience can have what he will," Ben Franklin. "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else," George Savile. "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" William Shakespeare. "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures," Lao Tzu Fantastic quotes! :) Thank you very much, Gio Thanks Gio, I forgot one, "Patience Grasshopper," Master Po. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benhacker Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 "I drop unexpectedly... like bird shit." - Notorious B.I.G. and for a more investment related rap lyric... "In anticipation for precipitation, I stack chips for a rainy day." - Jay Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccmal Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 "Build a man a fire and he will be warm for one night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life." - Sir Terry Pratchett "Sometimes I feel like I am the lowest thing on earth... kind of like whale shit" anon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccmal Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 I really took this to heart: never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience, mark twain. But it is so hard to do! Your wrong and I can prove it. I have been arguing with stupid people for years and winning.... Ooops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. --Alexander Hamilton I have started reading [amazonsearch]Alexander Hamilton[/amazonsearch] by Ron Chernow, and so far it is an highly recommended piece of historical biography. Cheers, Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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