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John Templeton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 29
Died: 2008
Died: July 8
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Tennessee
John Marks Templeton
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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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You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.
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Success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.
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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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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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Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
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Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.
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Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.
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Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.
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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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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.
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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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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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The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
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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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If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.
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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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It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
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