Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
Source: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 44
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 16
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
Source: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 44
“There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
Preface
The Book of Nothing (2009)
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Page 457.
Everything's Eventual (2002), "Luckey Quarter"
“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”
Joanne Harris book Chocolat
Source: Chocolat
Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 16
“Good music always defeats bad luck.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer
“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 18.
Joan Lowery Nixon (1927–2003) American children's writer and journalist
Source: In The Face of Danger
“Good laws are produced by bad actions.”
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius book Saturnalia
Saturnalia (c. 400). Alternately translated as "begot" instead of produced and "manners" instead of actions.