“Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor (1973) (Fourth Revised Edition), Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 286
“Rest assured,
for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is
to choose the right moment.”
Khaireas.
Dyskolos
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Athenian playwright of New Comedy -342–-291 BCRelated quotes
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VI, 2
Chuck Palahniuk
book
Haunted
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 4
Context: "It's not a matter of right and wrong," Mr. Whittier would say. Really, there is no wrong. Not in our minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act.
“Now, to-day, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.”
Book II, Chapter 5, "The Practical Conclusion"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: Now, to-day, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.
Source: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 10 (p. 99)
Benoît Mandelbrot
(1924–2010) Polish-born, French and American mathematician
A Theory of Roughness (2004)
Context: There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. For much of my life, however, there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. So I spent much of my life as an outsider, moving from field to field, and back again, according to circumstances. Now that I near 80, write my memoirs, and look back, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years "ahead of my time.
Robert Baden-Powell
(1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship