Investment and Life Lessons - Part 13

Here's the PART 13 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. 
Cheers!

1.    In any sort of a contest - financial, mental, or physical - it’s an enormous advantage to have opponents who have been taught that it’s useless to even try - Warren Buffett

2.    I look to the past for counsel

3.    No regrets, just lessons learned

4.    Gentlemen don't kiss and tell

5.    It is the fate of kings to do men good and to be hated for it

6.    You are not committed to something unless you are willing to sacrifice for it.

7.    Sacrifice the present for the future

8.    I think the history of finance resonates with one great lesson, and that is, when everybody agrees with something and their borrowing money to bet on it, beware

9.    True wealth is not money. It’s the option to buy what you truly need. If money can’t buy what you need, you’re on even footing with the poorest person out there - Dan Egan

10.  Information that you cannot apply, information that you don't have when you need it is worthless - Illacertus

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 12

Here's the PART 12 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. 
Cheers!

1. You can get in a whole lot more trouble in investing with a sound premise than with a false premise. - Benjamin Graham quoted by Warren Buffett

2. In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

3. I would bet on people still being people - Cliff Asness

4. Warren Buffett, he made it from investing, that’s how he built the wealth - Kaplan CFA professor

5. What is the definition of an analyst? - often wrong, never in doubt. What’s the definition of portfolio manager? - somebody who keeps listening to analysts - Kaplan CFA professor

6. The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken

7. Socratic prudence: drinking enough for pleasure but not too much to cause hangovers

8. Soon you will have forgotten all things, and soon all things would have forgotten you - Marcus Aurelius

9. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it - Bloomberg Quote

10. It is man who conceives himself, who propels himself towards existence.