1,227 Quotes About Principles

The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.