Self-confidence, Charlie Chaplin

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Advice, Frank Quintero

Do The Right Thing!

- Frank Quintero, Glendale mayor

To the Japanese Government (2013.04.14)

Name, Basque Proverb

Aberats izatea baino, izen ona hobe.
Translation: It's better to have a good name than to be rich.

- Basque Proverb

The Basque language (called Euskara by the Basque language speakers or Basques themselves) is the oldest language in Europe, the only non Indo-European language that survived after the administration of the Roman Empire spread throughout our continent. It is spoken by about one million people in the seven provinces of the Euskal Herria, that is, in North East Spain and South West France. No relationship between Basque and any other language has been established with certainty. The alphabet used for Basque employs Roman letters. The first printed book in Basque appeared in the 16th century. Basque is both agglutinative and polysynthetic.

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English equivalent

¶ A good name is the best treasure.

Help, Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)

The Answer to Prayers, Gospel of Matthew

The Answer to Prayers.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

+ Gospel of Matthew 7,7-8

http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/7

Kid, Phoebe Cates

Kids today are much more independent than their parents were. We`re really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier.

- Phoebe Cates (1963- )

Plan, ZHUGE Liang

謀事在人成事在天。

- 諸葛亮, 三國演義

Man proposes, god disposes.

- ZHUGE Liang (諸葛亮, 181–234), Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義)

Success, Ann Richards

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

- Ann Richards (1933-2006)

Advice, Aramaic Proverb

If you steal from a thief, you also have a taste of it.

- Aramaic Proverb

Just because someone steals, you have no right to rob them. (Talmud Bavli, Berakoth, 5b)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aramaic_proverbs

Birth, Selina Kyle from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Selina Kyle: You don't get to judge me just because you were born in the master bedroom of Wayne Manor
Bruce Wayne: [interrupting] Actually, I was born in the Regency Room.

- Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Advice, Knute Rockne

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

- Knute Rockne (1888-1931)

Ability to Adapt to a New Epoch, Bill Gross

There is not a Bond King or a Stock King or an Investor Sovereign alive that can claim title to a throne. All of us, even the old guys like Buffett, Soros, Fuss, yeah – me too, have cut our teeth during perhaps a most advantageous period of time, the most attractive epoch, that an investor could experience. ...What if an epoch changes? What if perpetual credit expansion and its fertilization of asset prices and returns are substantially altered? What if zero-bound interest rates define the end of a total return epoch that began in the 1970s, accelerated in 1981 and has come to a mathematical dead-end for bonds in 2012/2013 and commonsensically for other conjoined asset classes as well? What if a future epoch favors lower than index carry or continual bouts of 2008 Lehmanesque volatility, or encompasses a period of global geopolitical confrontation with a quest for scarce and scarcer resources such as oil, water, or simply food as suggested by Jeremy Grantham? What if the effects of global "climate change or perhaps aging demographics," substantially alter the rather fertile petri dish of capitalistic expansion and endorsement? What if quantitative easing policies eventually collapse instead of elevate asset prices? What if there is a future that demands that an investor—a seemingly great investor—change course, or at least learn new tricks? Ah, now, that would be a test of greatness: the ability to adapt to a new epoch.

- Bill Gross (1944- )

Pimco's Bill Gross Looks at the Man in the Mirror (CNBC.com, 3 Apr 2013)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100612898

http://finclip.blogspot.kr/2013/04/pimcos-bill-gross-looks-at-man-in-mirror.html

Friend, Arabic Proverb

Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend.

- Arabic proverb

Quoted in Carol Bardenstein, Translation and Transformation in Modern Arabic Literature:The Indigenous Assertions of Muḥammad 'Uthmān Jalāl, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, p. 66.

Arabic proverb: Proverbs from all Arabic speaking parts of the world.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arabic_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs