Risk
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Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Quoted in The Great Getty (1985)
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Speech to Americans for Democratic Action (May 12, 1961)
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors... we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
Chairman's Letter to Shareholders (1995)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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