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Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.
John Templeton
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John Templeton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 29
Died: 2008
Died: July 8
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You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.
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If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
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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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True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.
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The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
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Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.
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If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
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The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.
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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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An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.
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Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.
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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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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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Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
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Do your homework or hire wise experts to help you. Never jump into a business you have no idea about.
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If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.
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Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.
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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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Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.
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