Sunday, November 30, 2008

Women spend on things that enhance day-to-day living. Men don't spend; they invest. - Abby Ellin

Women trained to nurture and seek acceptance, view money as a means to create a lifestyle. Women spend on things that enhance day-to-day living. Theirs is a now-money orientation. Men trained to fix and provide, view money as a means to capture and accumulate value. Men don't spend; they invest. Theirs is a future-money orientation. - Abby Ellin, MSN Money
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/StockInvestingTrading/boys-girls-and-money.aspx

在艱辛的日子里堅持面對是很困難的,但是如果經常埋怨失去甚麼,你便會忘記自己所擁有的。- 力克

If you were to build your happiness upon material pleasures, that happiness will be shortlived. - Nick Vujicic

If God has not given you a miracle you've desired, that is because He wants you to become other people's miracle. - Nick Vujicic

http://www.mysinchew.com/node/18693?tid=10

It's hard to be persistent in facing the tough times, but if you keep on complaining what you've lost, you'll forget about what you're possessing.

Nick Vujicic
www.getup.hk | www.giveup.hk

The greatest obtacle in life has been our phobia. - Nick Vujicic

www.getup.hk | www.giveup.hk

Saturday, November 8, 2008

I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage - leverage being borrowed money. - Warren Buffett

One of the things you will find - which is interesting and people don't think of it enough - with most businesses and with most individuals, is life tends to snap you at your weakest link. The two biggest weak links in my experience: I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage - leverage being borrowed money.

Some men read Playboy. I read annual reports. - Warren Buffett

You have to read a zillion corporate annual reports and their financial statements - Warren Buffett

Exceptional company selling unique product or service, or they are low cost buyer and seller of a product or service that the public consistently need

Exceptional company selling unique product or service, or they are low cost buyer and seller of a product or service that the public consistently needs.

Unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks.

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself. - Warren Buffett

經濟學家是個懂得一百种做愛方法的男人,卻連一個女人也不認識。 - Art Buchwald