Source: The Intelligent Investor (1973) (Fourth Revised Edition), Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 287
“People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.”
Source: Our Knowledge of the External World
From an undated letter to Piero Soderini (translated here by Dr. Arthur Livingston), in The Living Thoughts of Machiavelli, by Count Carlo Sforza, published by Cassell, London (1942), p. 85
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
I Am A Dancer (1952)
Context: Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths. Then I need all the comfort that practice has stored in my memory, a tenacity of faith.
In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smith's Unforgotten Years (1938) p. 169.
Other
Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 142
“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”
