John Templeton Quotes

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

He that's secure is not safe.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

When the wart-hog looks up at the sky, it gets its throat slit.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.

Anybody who has enough information about what's going on in the bitcoin world, you would not buy your bitcoins on Mt. Gox.

Boxing is boxing and business is business.

I feel like it's dangerous to get complacent and celebrate too much... You can't get comfortable.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.