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“The family ate hugely, they were like a school of voracious fish feeding under the sea of chatter.”
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“Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.”
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“There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.”
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“Napoleon had the bad taste to put on the Tuileries the inscription 'La République Française.' Madame de Staël observed that in this he acted like a bad painter, who writes under his picture 'Ceci est un lion.'”
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“A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.”
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“... loyalty is a verbal switch-blade used by little and big bosses to force us quickly to accept a questionable situation which our intelligence and conscience should reject.”
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“Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.”
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“... I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all ... ”