Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
“Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”
— John C. Bogle · Time
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Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
“Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”
— John C. Bogle · Time
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“Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”
“I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in college who would say, 'I want to be a vice president by the time I'm 35 years old.' A lot of people had these career plans. I didn't have any. I thought if I did my best, good things would happen.”
“The market is often stupid, but you can't focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.”
“Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.”
“The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.”
“U.S. companies are innovative and entrepreneurial.”
“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”
“I am not a statue that was carved and sculpted to be a perfect masterpiece. I am still being moulded, and forever it shall be so. I am ready to be remodelled in the hands of the world’s greatest sculptor, time.”
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
“When I enjoy the world of short forms and indulge in a bout of poetic license, the heaviness all disappears into time.”
“How many summers had I been alive? The obvious answer was as many summers as my age; but for some reason I felt the presence of another number, a different, realer number somewhere out there in the world. I thought about this as I gazed into the summer glare.”
“Time isn't a gift, it's a conquest. Claim it.”