1,256 Quotes About Simple

  • Author W. C. Fields
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    So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

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  • Author A. Bartlett Giamatti
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    There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

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  • Author Alison Gopnik
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    The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

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  • Author Benjamin Graham
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    The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.

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  • Author Benjamin Graham
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    The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

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  • Author Benjamin Graham
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    The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

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  • Author Bill Gates
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    The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

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  • Author Billy Gibbons
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    Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.

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  • Author Bob Geldof
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    It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

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