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“A Philosopher is a person who loves wisdom and is dedicated to the search for meaning. The pursuit of wisdom is an active, unending process of discovery. The true philosopher is filled with the passion to understand, a process that never ends.”

The true investor will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operating results of his companies

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 Nate

— Benjamin Graham

I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them

January 14, 2023January 14, 2023 Nate

—Andy Bernard

Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life. If you just take the attitude that however bad it is in anyway, it’s always your fault and you just fix it as best you can – the so-called ‘iron prescription’ – I think that really works

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 Nate

— Charlie Munger

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 Nate

—  Rainer Maria Rilke

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Nate

— Robert Arnott

Don’t waste your time arguing with anyone whose opinion you don’t respect…

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 Nate

— Alex Green “… This is doubly true when the person you’re dealing with is a zealot. (I define a zealot as someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.) You probably have better things to do than bang your head against the wall. Ideally, you want to converse with someone who

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