#fin

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#despair #facade #formula #give #must

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#canvas #chords #come #fingers #keyboard

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely. ↗

— Blu Cantrell

#definitely #men #more #prone

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. ↗

— Karel Capek

#could #dogs #find #get #hard

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. ↗

— James Chanos

#between #big #big difference #difference #falls

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

#different way #fallen #female #finding #fortieth

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly. ↗

— James Chanos

#accounted #any #derivatives #done #evil

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash