Jo Graham Quotes

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together.

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

I fart in your general direction.

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

Don't worry about what you can't do; focus instead on what you can do... and then do it.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

For whatever life holds for you and your family in the coming days, weave the unfailing fabric of God's Word through your heart and mind. It will hold you strong, even if the rest of life unravels.

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You’re only a decision away from reconnecting.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

The body is a sacred garment.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.