Top 25 John Gutfreund Quotes
#1. In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
Frederick Lenz
#2. I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.
John Gutfreund
#3. I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.
John Gutfreund
#4. You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.
Jane Espenson
#6. [A] baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be.
Sara Pennypacker
#7. No great leader can be made by image-builders.
Ymatruz
#8. Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
#9. This may be the most valuable and the most challenging thing we can learn from Calvin's ecclesiology today: that the church is not something that we form of our own accord. It is not a product of our reaching out to God, but a gift of God reaching out to us.107
Michael S. Horton
#10. The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
John Gutfreund
#11. Great women aren't born great, they become great.
Sabrina Newby
#12. I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.
John Gutfreund
#14. We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
#15. People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.
John Gutfreund
#16. When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.
Nhat Hanh
#17. The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.
John Burnside
#18. The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.
Peter Cundill
#19. Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.
John Gutfreund
#20. I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
John Gutfreund
#21. Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.
John Gutfreund
#23. Hi. He turned and saw Kelsey standing in the door of the kitchen, looking ... Well, she was
glowing. That pregnant woman glow, maybe? Or just the sun hitting her face at the right time. Either
way, she looked hot, and he noticed
Maisey Yates
#24. Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.
John Gutfreund
#25. What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears.
Michael Lewis
