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  • In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Men Quotes , Alchemist Quotes
  • Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Reality Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything to do with — they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I shoud mention them in my writings & I find more pleasure in wandering the fields then in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible of everything but toiling & talking of it & that to no purpose.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : John Clare Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Science Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Men Quotes , White Quotes
  • You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Taken Quotes , Men Quotes