Benjamin Quotes
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.
To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
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