Warren Buffett Quotes, Past Quotes, Important Quotes

It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

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Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Past Quotes , Reality Quotes

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Passion Quotes , Past Quotes

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

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If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference.

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Past Quotes

Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it

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To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Past Quotes

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

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They say miracles are past.

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Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

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It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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