Quotes About Control

we lose tens of billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid fraud every year. This is something we have not been able to control, either because we don't care very much and view other issues as much more important, or because we are incompetent

government-controlled programs continue to grow until they destroy themselves.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor.

Agile digital players like Amazon and Netflix are taking control of the rest.

Control is the name of the game and if a Skunk Works really operates right, control is exactly what they won't get.

How is it that when we see politics permeate every life sector we call it totalitarianism and when we see religion everywhere we call it theocracy, but when commerce dominates everything we call it liberty?

this book will teach you three powerful lessons: how you can minimize the odds of suffering irreversible losses; how you can maximize the chances of achieving sustainable gains; how you can control the self-defeating behavior that keeps most investors from reaching their full potential.

Se você não tem como prever o comportamento dos mercados, precisa aprender a prever e controlar o seu próprio.

The recurrent excesses of its advances and declines are due at bottom to the fact that, when values are determined chiefly by the outlook, the resultant judgments are not subject to any mathematical controls and are almost inevitably carried to extremes.

justify our continuing them. Hence from 1939 on our operations were limited to "selfliquidating" situations, related hedges, working-capital bargains, and a few control operations. Each of these classes gave us quite consistently satisfactory results from then on, with the special feature that the related hedges turned in good profits in the bear markets when our "undervalued issues" were not doing so well.

The future of security prices is never predictable. And as you read ahead in the book, notice how everything else Graham tells you is designed to help you grapple with that truth. Since you cannot predict the behavior of the markets, you must learn how to predict and control your own behavior.

You'd insist on your right to take control of your own emotional life, based on your experiences and your beliefs. But, when it comes to their financial lives, millions of people let Mr. Market tell them how to feel and what to do—despite the obvious fact that, from time to time, he can get nuttier than a fruitcake.

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

The sun, moon, stars, firmament, the sea and the earth have their fixed course, and if ever they do diverge from their regular course, they always correct themselves again; may Cortes, in his love of power, take this as a precept.

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

She is a woman, and what women want, they get, and if the world and all it holds must be broken in the getting, then so be it.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. Fate is inexorable. We are given power and we lose it.

Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared.

The art of war," I told him, "is to make the enemy do your bidding.

The Lord Uhtred sought to annoy you, bishop, the king said, and it is best not to give him the satisfaction of showing that he has succeeded.

Always fight the horse, not the rider.

Merlino mi fissò. - Credi che tu, Derfel, o Artù possiate essere tanto forti da resistere a Nimue? Lei è una donna. Le donne ottengono sempre ciò che vogliono, e se per ottenerlo devono rovinare il mondo e tutto ciò che il mondo contiene, così sia.

Anger leads to savagery,' I said curtly, 'and to stupidity.