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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

John Templeton

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John Templeton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 29
Died: 2008
Died: July 8
Businessperson
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Tennessee
John Marks Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
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You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.
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Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to your medical doctor and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned.
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If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.
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Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.
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Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.
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It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.
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Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
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Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.
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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
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Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.
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The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
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The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'
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For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.
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If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
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Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .
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It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
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Success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.
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Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
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