“When you set out on that yellow-brick-road of life to fulfil your goals, just be the best you can be – and whether that means you finish as champion, first, second, tenth, whatever… if you've done your best? You're winning. The martial arts however can teach you a lot about how to perform – how to dig deep – and how to be better than you think you can be.”— Bruce Buffer
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As you move forward... there is the potential that the government can make a wrong-move but more importantly, now that the infrastructure has been built.. you have to question how long that growth model can last... Once you've built your motorways and railways, you're not going to build anymore!
— Louis-Vincent GaveFounder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist
Chinese global trade went down 20% and Chinese exports collapsed by 25%. This had an immediate effect whereby factories along the coast, in the last quarter of 2008 alone, fired between 20-30 million migrant workers.
— Louis-Vincent GaveFounder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist
What if we move to a world where, because robots are so cheap... cheap labour doesn't really matter anymore? What will be China's main comparative advantage after that?
— Louis-Vincent GaveFounder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist
One way to think about reserve currencies is to liken them to an operating system for a computer. Today, everybody is on Microsoft... but nobody changes... why? because everybody else is on Microsoft and if you want to exchange files and work together, you have to be on the same platform.
— Louis-Vincent GaveFounder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist
We have to acknowledge that the global economic recovery that we started to see in 2009 was the first economic cycle since World War II that was not led by the US, but by China.
— Louis-Vincent GaveFounder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist
The net result would certainly be worth the effort as now, more than ever, stakeholders in a fragile global economy from central banks to individual consumers need to know that what they are seeing is, in fact, the truth... the whole truth... and nothing but the truth.
— UnknownAround the world, government economists have a paradoxical role. On one hand they have a clear remit to accurately quantify their nation's economy and publish those figures in good faith... but conversely they can be prone (through pressure) to 'engineer' the figures in order to meet political objectives.
— UnknownWe weren't involved in politics and had nothing to do with the government. But they took everything we had, our seven companies and the company plane. And it's a miracle they didn't kill us.
— Argentine businessmanManaging a hedge fund as a value-investor is a dream come true!
— Lauren TempletonValue investor and niece of legendary investor John Templeton
We will not employ capital unless we can find an opportunity that has a minimum of 50% upside to our intrinsic value over the term of our investment.
— Lauren TempletonValue investor and niece of legendary investor John Templeton
The point of maximum pessimism is the ultimate time to buy a stock because at this point, all the sellers are gone… and only buyers remain. How do you determine this point? Even Uncle John said it's impossible…. You never know until it has passed!
— Lauren TempletonValue investor and niece of legendary investor John Templeton
Uncle John always had a desk-plate in his office that said 'trouble is opportunity' and that's very much how we see the markets.
— Lauren TempletonValue investor and niece of legendary investor John Templeton
We tend to see two scenarios that come up time and time again. The first and most common scenario is that security prices become inefficient or show large departures from intrinsic value when there are few investors paying attention to the company. So in this case, we are talking about a neglected stock.
— Lauren TempletonValue investor and niece of legendary investor John Templeton
Corruption can be seen as denigration of the basic right of people to dignity. It is also a threat to human security and human rights.
— Yury FedotovDirector of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Around 66,000 women and girls are violently killed every year. Most of them are victims of 'intentional homicide'. Armed violence, in all its forms and manifestations, is mainly a direct consequence of transnational organised crime.
— Yury FedotovDirector of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
We estimate with the World Bank that US$20-40 billion each year is lost in developing countries through corruption. If you add to that $5 billion each year in stolen assets, it clearly shows that corruption is a serious obstacle to the achievement of the millennium development goals.
— Yury FedotovDirector of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime