John Marks Templeton: Quotes about time

John Marks Templeton was stock investor, businessman and philanthropist. Explore interesting quotes on time.

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“We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now.”

The Quotable Sir John
Context: We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?

“The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."”

John Marks Templeton

As quoted in The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio (2002) by William Bernstein

“I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?”

John Marks Templeton

The Quotable Sir John

“In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.”

John Marks Templeton

The Quotable Sir John