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“Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.”

Fall Opportunity Deals Sells Investing Significant Investors Fluctuation

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.”

Thinking Persons Book Would Be Lasts Past Form Opportunity Land Ordinary Significant Grieving Enjoyment Geography Cathedrals Intelligence And Education

Author:William Morris Davis

“When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.”

People May Spiritual Opportunity Majors Transformation Illness Significant Encounters Surgery Severe Spiritual Transformation

Author:Allan Hamilton

“In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.”

People Bigs Pain Opportunity Change Taken Progress Failure News Disappointment Significant Granted Frustration Bad News Taken For Granted Big Changes

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.”

America Opportunity Interest Capacity Investment Productions Improvement Newspapers Significant Mediums Capability Efficiency Publishers Boost North America Enhancement

Author:Eric Bell

“I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.”