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For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

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John Templeton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 29
Died: 2008
Died: July 8
Businessperson
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Winchester
Tennessee
John Marks Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton
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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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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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Help yourself by helping others.
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The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
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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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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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If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
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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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Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
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For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.
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The only way to experience love is to give it.
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If you're not grateful, you're not rich - no matter how much you have.
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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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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
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Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.
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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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Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.
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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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Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
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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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