“When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.”
Quote by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was a renowned physiologist born on September 16, 1893, in Hungary, and passed away on October 22, 1986. He made significant contributions to biochemistry, particularly in the study of vitamins, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. more
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