Jo Graham Quotes

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

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

I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond.

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

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

The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

He's a player you only miss when he's not playing

I'm going to be pulling my pants up all day, and I'm just going to have a terrible day. Because if your clothes don't fit, just like bras or anything, it's not a good day.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

We can all humbly say in the sincerity of faith, "I am loved; I am called; I am secure."

I don't think anyone is free

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost