#ventures

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#being #correct #cut #even #fortune

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. ↗

— Herman Melville

#adventuresome #just-do-it #travels #love

We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are. ↗

— C.J. Heck

#experiences-and-adventures #how-we-become-us #who-we-are #change

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#been #briefly #circumstances #country #day

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#adventures #cars #day #driving #family

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ↗

— Euripides

#finishing #hand #plan #ventures

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. ↗

— Richard Branson

#around #i #invest #money #new

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#adventures #boy #confess #drawn #fake

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! ↗

— Frances Burney

#dare #dearest #dedicate #dislikes #fears

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#adventures #appealed #being #correspondent #covering