Characteristics Quotes
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.
One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.
Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.
It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.
You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.
One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.
If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.
It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.
The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.
The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
