Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Templeton

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

John Templeton

Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.

John Templeton

Diversify your investments.

John Templeton

If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

John Templeton

The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'

John Templeton

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

John Templeton

How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

John Templeton

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton

Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

John Templeton

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

John Templeton

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

Michael Bennet

There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

Michael Bloomberg

We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.

Melinda Gates

I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.

Ray Bradbury

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

James Black

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

Henry Rollins

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Henry Rollins

Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.

Mary Tyler Moore

There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

Martin Seligman

Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Martin Seligman

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

Martin Seligman

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

James Redfield

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

James Redfield

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

Jon Anderson

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

John Wooden

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

Eric Kripke

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Norah O'Donnell

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

Miguel de Cervantes

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

John Elkington

So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

Jimmy Wales

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

I am optimistic about the future of music.