Irving Kahn Quotes

#1. The enemy: Will you obey ... even in this 'ridiculous' little detail? You, with God's grace: I will obey ... even in this 'heroic' little detail.

Josemaria Escriva

#2. Sage knows what I like.

R.E. Blake

#3. Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

James Thurber

#4. It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

Irving Kahn

#5. Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Jenny Slate

#7. The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

Irving Kahn

#8. This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

Irving Kahn

#9. I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#10. To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.

Robert H. Baker

#11. Okay, first of all, who names their dinner? I don't want to know my dinner's name. This potato- is this potato named Steve?

Rick Riordan

#12. I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock,

Irving Kahn

#13. Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

Irving Kahn

#14. I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

Irving Kahn

#15. In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

Dillon Burroughs

#16. Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

Irving Kahn

#17. As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.

Felix Adler

#18. Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

Irving Kahn

#19. Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

Irving Kahn