We don't just want change. We want the feeling of being on the verge of change — the anticipation, the possibility, the sense that something better is just around the corner. The problem is that this feeling is often more pleasurable than the reality of change itself.
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Stephen Jay Gould — The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
The investor's chief problem — and even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself. In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. The man who cannot master his emotions is ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
Benjamin Graham — The Intelligent Investor
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. And yet we spend our lives praising the horse and forgetting to plant the field.
Nikolai Gogol — Dead Souls