Warren Buffett Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Negative Quotes

There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

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Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

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I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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