“If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.” IfsWayTryingI CanTwoDoneDiesCan DoActingSecurityAmountTomorrowComplainingHardestThis LifeLiving My LifeHardest Thing Author:Yul Vazquez
“If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation.” IfsWantSituationSecurityAmountSafeHappeningsTownsEnormousAfghanistan Author:Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
“Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.” WantArtAbilityInspiringSecurityMastersAmountFinancialSecureServingServing OthersFinancial Security Author:Michael Neill
“To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.” UseEnergySecurityAmountFocusedExpensiveDepartmentDevicesHomelandContainersDetectionShippingHomeland SecurityDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Jim Ryun
“Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.” WorldWarNationsProgressTeamModernConditionsSecurityAmountMembersAchievementProsperityWelfareModern WorldScientific Progress Book:Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President
“Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.” SelfForceSecurityAmountNotionOccupationCoalitionsDependencySelf ReliantSecurity Forces Author:George W. Casey, Jr.
“It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.” GivingHumansMadeMomentsLife IsHouseSecurityDutyAmountCircumstancesEverydayPainfulBeing TrueOccasionsCheerfulEveryday Moments Author:Leigh Hunt
“However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market risk because the valuations placed on these securities have implied overly rosy scenarios prone to popular revision in times of more realistic expectation. This is one of those times, but it is my feeling that the revisions have not been severe enough, the expectations not yet realistic enough. Hence, the world's best companies largely remain overpriced in the marketplace.” IfsWorldHas BeensEnoughFeelingsGamesQualityCompanyRiskSecurityAmountExpectationsRealisticExposedSevereMarketplaceScenariosRevisionImpliedRosyValuationMarket RiskBest CompanyRealistic Expectations Author:Michael Burry
“Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.” IfsDoeSometimesBigsTodayAmericaOpportunitySecurityReturnAmountRight NowCreditBritishSignificantOnlinePoundsBubblesCurrencyContinuingUnlimitedFloatsMortgageErring Author:Michael Burry
“One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: "They know too many things that are no longer true." As long as I am "on stage", publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can't help being competitive. I know I don't want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.” IfsKnowsWayWantLongI CanHelpingAbleEffortResponsibilityRecordsStageSecurityAmountActivityManagementAssumingInvestmentPartnersFortyPublishingObserversSlow DownRabbitsAnalystsPacingNet WorthAssuming Responsibility Author:Warren Buffett
“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.” CountryCertainCultureFreedomAtheismSecurityJudgingAmountDiversityTestsSocial JusticeEqualityEnjoyedMinoritiesAbsolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays) Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.” PeopleFeelsYearsStatesReasonLastsLostNationsResultsSecurityAmountEnormousWelfareThirtyInsecureSovereigntyGlobalizationKoreaNorth KoreaThirty YearsWelfare StateBurma Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“We provide an enormous amount of resources, particularly with regard to military resources, to countries all over the world. And in many cases, those countries are not compensating the American taxpayer for the commitment that we're making to their security.” WorldCountryCasesSecurityMilitaryAmountCommitmentResourcesRegardEnormousTaxpayers Author:Mike Pence