Thought for the day

[Mickel]

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Ellis Peters

 

[noirua]

Your car should not have cost you more than 10% of the value of your house. That value after deducting all loans against it.

 

[noirua]

I saw that thread 'Buy With Open Arms' and I'm still wondering if I should have or indeed should. As I've only got very small arms I'm in there at the start, have the feeling that I'm about 10 days late on this one.

 

[Mickel]

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James (1843 - 1916)

 

[noirua]

He has the ability to turn a substantial victory into abject defeat as he cannot leave it alone. - noi on Rudd

 

[Mickel]

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

 

[Mickel]

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

 

[Mickel]

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), "The Peter Principle"

 

[noirua]

Hi Julia, congrats on your new high position in Government. I thought I would contact you to ask which stocks you would advise me to invest in since you have now caved in on taxes on Coal and Iron Ore?

"You cheeky so and so, if you were not a former PM I'd blast you into touch you lump of dead meat", replied Julia.

"Come on now, sharks teeth and all that", he said, "just give us the low down".

"Can't say", replied Julia, "not qualified to give investment advice, you know. However, if I was qualified I would advise the purchase of..."

 

[Mickel]

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

 

[pixel]

Nonetheless, despite extensive efforts on the part of analysts, to my knowledge, no model projecting directional movements in exchange rates is significantly superior to tossing a coin.

Sir Alan Greenspan - 20/11/2003

 

[gav]

"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its exactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait." - G.K. Chesterton

 

[Mickel]

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

 

[Slipperz]

The markets can be cruel despite your best ideas and efforts.

I have taken a bath this week on almost every trade except the 300K buy order I pulled at open on PRR at 0.09.

That was the trade I didn't initiate



I was waiting for it to fall back to maximise my profit

 

[noirua]

I bang my head on the wall at the frustrations, lies and exaggerations, that come to call.

 

[Mickel]

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Marquis de la Grange (1639 - 1692)

 

[noirua]

Always keep your mouse clean as it can become very dirty indeed. Germs and disease are very prevalent with mice, sorry mouses.

 

[Mickel]

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

 

[Mickel]

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Beatty (1937 - )

 

[basilio]

Your own common sense should tell you that common sense alone is not enough.. Ashleigh Brilliant