“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
Rhonda Byrne book The Secret
Source: The Secret
“Ninety-nine percent of what you read about investing in magazines and newspapers, and 100% of what you hear on television is worse than useless.”
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 15, A Final Word, p. 297.
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