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“Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.”

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.”

Needs Two Stories Values Memories Company Subjects Ought Exhausted Repetition Defects Good Memories

Author:Jonathan Swift

“One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.”

Thinking Would Be Company Greater Subjects Conversation Variety Engaged Discourse Confined Assembly

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.”

Men Pay Company Subjects Circumstances Conversation Regard Guilty Discourse Impertinence

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.”

Children Self Company Subjects Politician Enjoyment Favourite Contagious Good Company

Author:Garry Wills

“I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Years I Can Book Reading Interest Realizing Interesting Company Written Subjects Jokes Smarter Writing A Book

Author:Brian Tracy

“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”

“Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.”

People Ifs Giving Shows Company Subjects Tone

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”

People Should Mean Religion Company Subjects Conversation Treated Familiar Awful Mutual Instruction Respectable Taboo

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well.”

Wells Sound Company Subjects Victim Suicide Survivor Dread Polite Family And Friends Taboo Inappropriate

Book:Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention

Source: Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention

“Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.”

People Differences Pay Company Trouble Subjects Fund Getting Old Getting Older Demographics Insurance Companies Private Insurance

Author:Milton Friedman

“My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.”

People Real Reason Character Company Known Subjects Loneliness Plenty Reason Why

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I think that the good thing about working smaller and being a smaller company that doesn't have to make as much to make money back is that you don't have to worry about, well, critics like this and they'll tell people to buy it, but millions of people might say, 'Oh, well I'm not interested in that subject matter' and we're sunk.”

People Thinking Wells Matter Might Company Millions Worry Subjects Good Things Critics Making Money Not Interested Subject Matter Oh Well

Author:Steve Gaynor

“The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.”

Numbers Company Subjects Behavior Advantage Customers Consumers Enterprise Trends Predictable Fads

Author:Marc Andreessen