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