Quotes by Henry S. Haskins

Henry S. Haskins
American stockbroker and man of letters
Alive from: 1875-1957
Quotes 1 till 15 of 18.
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Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 94 -
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 22 -
Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 92 -
Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 82 -
Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
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Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p.96 -
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 107 -
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 134
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