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The Stock Market Produces Broad Outsized Gains This Week As Interest Rates Surf South – $ADT $AMZN $AAPL $DECK $INDP $LTRN $NVDA $XBI Rise!

By John F. Heerdink, Jr.
Quote of the Day: “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw


Happy Saturday!

I hope that you had a wonderful week and are out an about enjoyable an amazing weekend.

As for the broad markets this week, the major indices roared back after entering the 10% correction territory last Friday a move that was fueled by a new understanding that the Fed may actually be finished with raising interest rates. The Fed kept rates steady at the FOMC meeting and then Uncle Jerry Powell actually helped by stating that the Fed had come very far with their rate hike cycle. In concert with growing confidence that the Fed may be done, The CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) pulled back significantly by a whopping 24.51%closing at $14.91. Oil prices fell again by 5.4% ending at $80.92/bbl and nearly back in to the acceptable range.  Accordingly, the yield curve pulled back with the 2-yr yield moving from 5.029% to 4.86% and the 10-yr moving from 4.83% to 4.51%. The U.S. Dollar Index also pulled back nicely this week from 106.58 to 105.07.

A number of macroeconomic reports hit the presses again this week that also gave the Fed and investors the understanding that the Fed may actually be finished raising interest rates. On Tuesday, the October Chicago PMI report came in at 44, the Q3 Employment Cost Index report came in at 1.1%, the August FHFA Housing Price Index came in at .6%, and the August S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index at 2.2%, & the October Consumer Confidence report came in at 102.6. On Wednesday, the Weekly MBA Mortgage Applications Index report that came in at -2.1%, the October ADP Employment Change report came in at 113, & the Final October S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI came in at 50. The September Construction Spending report clocked in at .4%, The October ISM Manufacturing Index report moved more than 2 points lower to 46.7%. Lastly, the September JOLTS or Job Openings report was confirmed art 9.553M. On Thursday, the Weekly Initial Claims report that closed higher at 217k and the Weekly Continuing Claims rose to 1.818M, but still rains relatively low. The Q3 Preliminary Productivity report clocked in at 4.7% & the Preliminary Q3 Unit Labor Costs report came in at -.8% further supporting the understanding that the Fed may not be raising rates again. The September Factory Orders report came in at 2.8%. On Friday, the October Nonfarm Payrolls came in at 150k lower than expected. The October Nonfarm Private Payrolls report also confirmed it came in lower at 99K. The October Average Hourly Earnings came in at .2%& the October Unemployment Rate came in slightly higher at 3.9%, while the October Average Workweek was at 34.3. The Final October S&P Global US Services PMI came in at 50.6, while the October ISM Non-Manufacturing Index came in at 51.8%.

At the end of the week, the Dow 30 closed at 34,061.30 (5.1%) this week and is now up 2.8% YTD.

The S&P 500 closed at 4,358.34 (+5.9%) for the week and is now up 13.5% YTD. All 11 sectors moved higher this week as the top four performing sector came with the real estate sector up 8.6%, the financial sector rising 7.4%, the consumer discretionary sector up 7.2%,  and the information technology jumping 6.8%.

The Nasdaq closed at 13,478.20 (+6.6%) and is now up 28.8% YTD.  

The Magnificent Seven fight their way back after the recent hit this week and closed as follows over the last 5-days: Alphabet (GOOG) closing at $130.37, +5.65%, Amazon (AMZN) closing at $138.60, +8.50%, Apple (AAPL, $176.65, +5.01%), Meta Platforms (META) closing at $314.60, +6.02%, Microsoft (MSFT) closing at $352.80, +6.97%, NVIDIA (NVDA) closing at $450.05, +11.12% & Tesla (TSLA) closing at $219.96, +6.11%.

The small caps on the Russell 2000 rebound strongly and closed at 1,760.70 (+7.6%) for the week & is now +0.00% YTD. The MicroCaps also moved lower this week as the iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC) closed at $98.45, +8.45% this week, but remains down 8.70% YTD after establishing yet another new 52-wk low last Friday at $90.70.

Bank stocks on the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE) moved up 12.22% over the last 5-days to close at $43.62 and is now down 25.74% YTD & the SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE) also moved up 10.90% over the last 5-days to close at $38.45.

The Biotech sector rebounded nicely this week.  The Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) closed at $119.79, +6.57% over the last 5-days and is now down 8.76% YTD, the NYSE ARCA Biotech Index (^BTK) closed at 4,799.59, +5.62% over the last 5-days and is now down 9.12% YTD, & the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) closed at $71.46, +11.45 over the last 5-days, & is now down 13.90% YTD. The 52-week range is is now $64.05-$92.60 after establishing a new 52-wk low last week.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) closed at $40.44, +18.59% over the last 5-days and is up 29.45% YTD.   

The iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF (IYH) closed at $266.12, +3.46% over the last 5-days and is now down 6.20% YTD.   

From the world of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC) moved to $34,702.45, +.10% over the course of the last 5-days at the time of the completion of this message, but is up 64.10% over the last year.

Gold prices closed at $1997 down from $2016 over the last 5-days.  Silver prices closed at $23.27 up from $23.24 over the last 5-days. The Global X Silver ETF (SIL) closed at $25.16, +1.99% over the last 5-days.




VP Watchlist Updates


Deckers Brands (NYSE: DECK, $597.10, +3.69% over the last 5-days), a global leader in designing, marketing, and distributing innovative footwear, apparel, and accessories, announced financial results last week for the second fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2023. The Company also provided an update to its financial outlook for the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2024. “The strength of demand for our HOKA and UGG brands continued to drive exceptional performance, producing record revenue and earnings for Deckers in both the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2024,” said Dave Powers, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Our team’s ability to deliver compelling products that create emotional connections with consumers through engaging marketing campaigns, differentiates our brands in a competitive marketplace. This, paired with our strategic approach to marketplace management, led by our DTC channel, remains paramount to the success of our brands and Company. We are focused on maintaining the integrity of our healthy brands to deliver the results detailed in our increased outlook, while remaining aligned with long-term objectives.”



Lantern (LTRN), closed at $2.87, +7.09% over the last 5-days. Lantern is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm that is transforming the cost, pace, and timeline of oncology drug discovery and development and specifically is developing targeted and transformative cancer therapies using its proprietary RADR® AI and machine learning (“ML”) platform with multiple clinical stage drug programs.

Lantern Pharma will host its third quarter 2023 operating and financial results webcast on Wednesday, November 8, 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Management intends to discuss the operating and financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023 and provide guidance on upcoming milestones, clinical trials and developments of the A.I. platform, RADR®. Panna Sharma, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lantern Pharma, will lead the call and will be joined by other members of the management team. To register for the webinar, please sign up at the Zoom webcast link provided in the link: Lantern Pharma Q3, 2023 earnings Zoom webcast registration link. A replay of the earnings call webcast will be available after the call on the investor relations section of the Company’s website: ir.lanternpharma.com.

On Oct. 3, Lantern announced that in vivo data highlighting the enhanced efficacy of Lantern’s drug candidate LP-184 in glioblastoma (GBM) were published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. LP-184 is a unique small molecule with low nanomolar activity and favorable CNS penetration. LP-184 utilizes its powerful mechanism of action, known as synthetic lethality, to exploit common vulnerabilities in solid tumor and CNS cancers with DNA damage repair (DDR) deficiencies. In addition, Lantern’s AI platform, RADR®, has highlighted overlapping gene dependency profiles between GBM tumorigenesis and sensitivity to LP-184, such as EGFR activation pathways. The article, entitled “Preclinical Efficacy of LP-184, a Tumor Site Activated Synthetic Lethal Therapeutic, in Glioblastoma” can be accessed here.

On September 25, Lantern announced the dosing of the first patient in the Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating Lantern’s investigational new drug LP-184 in patients with advanced solid tumors. LP-184 is being studied in a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial, having been developed with guidance from Lantern’s AI Platform, RADR®, as a potential therapy for a wide range of advanced solid tumors. LP-184 is one of two molecules in Lantern’s synthetic-lethal franchise that has been shown to have anti-cancer activity in tumors with DNA damage repair deficiency. Lantern estimates that LP-184 has a global aggregate market potential of approximately $11-13 billion, consisting of $6-7 billion for solid tumors and $5-6 billion for CNS cancers. To learn more click here. 

On September 18, Lantern announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the investigational new drug (IND) application for LP-284. LP-284 is being developed for the treatment of relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), including mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and double hit lymphoma (DHL) and other high-grade B-cell lymphomas (HGBL). Lantern expects to commence enrollment of patients for the first-in-human Phase 1 trial for LP-284 during the fourth quarter of 2023. Lantern estimates that LP-284 can have the potential to improve outcomes for 40,000 to 80,000 patients with blood cancers annually, with a global annual market potential of $4 Billion USD.

 

Panna Sharma is the President, CEO, and Board Member of Lantern Pharma Inc.

“This is now our second novel drug candidate to receive IND clearance from the FDA in the past 100 days, further validating our approach of leveraging AI and machine learning to accelerate the development of our pipeline. LP-284 holds blockbuster potential, and we have been able to expedite its journey from a concept to a first-in-human clinical trial in a highly efficient and cost-effective manner – less than 2.5 years and under approximately $2.7 million – underscoring the power and potential of our AI platform RADR® to accelerate oncology drug discovery and development. RADR® was used to unravel the mechanism of action of LP-284, prioritize its cancer indications, and generate machine-learning biomarker signatures that may be pivotal in selecting patients for future phases of the clinical trials. Our success-to-date with LP-284 reaffirms our commitment to harnessing the power of AI to transform cancer treatment and save lives,” stated Panna Sharma, Lantern’s President and CEO.

On September 8, Lantern’s Chief Executive Officer, Panna Sharma, delivered a presentation titled “How Artificial Intelligence Is Crushing Drug Discovery Times & Costs In Cancer” at a Tribe Public CEO Presentation & Q&A Event. The Event video is now published at the Tribe Public YouTube Channel that you may view now by clicking here.


Shares of Indaptus Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: INDP) closed at $2.08, -18.91% over the last 5-days. INDP stocks is also up 43.45% YTD.

Indaptus is a company with the ability to harness both the body’s innate and adaptive immune responses, believes that they are uniquely positioned to revolutionize the treatment of cancer and certain infectious diseases. Indaptus Therapeutics has evolved from more than a century of immunotherapy advances. The Company’s novel approach is based on the hypothesis that efficient activation of both innate and adaptive immune cells and pathways and associated anti-tumor and anti-viral immune responses will require a multi-targeted package of immune system-activating signals that can be administered safely intravenously (i.v.). Indaptus’ patented technology is composed of single strains of attenuated and killed, non-pathogenic, Gram-negative bacteria producing a multiple Toll-like receptor (TLR), Nucleotide oligomerization domain (Nod)-like receptor (NLR) and Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) agonist Decoy platform. The products are designed to have reduced i.v. toxicity, but largely uncompromised ability to prime or activate many of the cells and pathways of innate and adaptive immunity. Decoy products represent an antigen-agnostic technology that have produced single-agent activity against metastatic pancreatic and orthotopic colorectal carcinomas, single agent eradication of established antigen-expressing breast carcinoma, as well as combination-mediated eradication of established hepatocellular carcinomas and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas in standard pre-clinical models, including syngeneic mouse tumors and human tumor xenografts.

In pre-clinical studies tumor eradication was observed with Decoy products in combination with anti-PD-1 checkpoint therapy, low-dose chemotherapy, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or an approved, targeted antibody. Combination-based tumor eradication in pre-clinical models produced innate and adaptive immunological memory, involved activation of both innate and adaptive immune cells, and was associated with induction of innate and adaptive immune pathways in tumors after only one i.v. dose of Decoy product, with associated “cold” to “hot” tumor inflammation signature transition. IND-enabling, nonclinical toxicology studies demonstrated safe i.v. administration without sustained induction of hallmark biomarkers of cytokine release syndromes, possibly due to passive targeting to liver, spleen, and tumor, followed by rapid elimination of the product. Indaptus’ Decoy products have also produced significant single agent activity against chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and chronic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in pre-clinical models.

On Oct. 31, Indaptus announced it will be presenting interim data from the first cohort of four patients in the Phase 1 INDP-D101 trial of its lead compound, Decoy20. The interim data, released today in abstract form, demonstrated that as of August 31, 2023, each of the first cohort participants experienced transient activation of biomarkers associated with innate and/or adaptive immune responses, and generally expected transient adverse events, both associated with predicted rapid clearance of Decoy20. The data in full will be presented in a poster at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) on November 4. The conference will be held from November 1-5, 2023 in San Diego. Michael J. Newman, Ph.D., Indaptus’ Founder and Chief Scientific Officer noted, “Even in this early study, Decoy20 is exceeding our expectations from the perspective that we are seeing activation of the immune system, based on transient expression of multiple plasma cytokines and chemokines, with expected transient adverse events. These results, in conjunction with the desired and observed rapid clearance of Decoy20 from the blood, are highly supportive of our “Pulse-Prime” hypothesis for the Decoy20 mechanism of action.” Roger Waltzman, M.D., Indaptus’ Chief Medical Officer, added, “We are encouraged by the tolerability of Decoy20 and the notable evidence for broad immune biomarker activation at this early stage. At one month following the single dose of Decoy20, all four of the first cohort patients had stable disease. We are following these patients as well as working on enrolling the second cohort, which utilizes a lower dose. This lower dose is based on the pharmacodynamic results seen with the first cohort and plans to optimize Decoy20 for both weekly dosing and combination approaches.” The abstract/poster is titled, “Preliminary results of an in progress, first-in-human Phase 1 study of Decoy20, an intravenous, killed, multiple immune receptor agonist bacterial product in patients with advanced solid tumors.” First cohort patients received a single dose of 7×107 killed Decoy20 bacteria via a one-hour IV infusion. As of August 31, 2023, treatment-related adverse events, potentially expected based upon prior clinical studies with purified lipopolysaccharide, have included, among other events, changes in hemodynamic parameters, transaminase elevations, and lymphopenia; all resolved with or without treatment within 30 minutes to 3 days. The Company believes the short half-life of Decoy20 observed in blood coupled with the marked, but transient, induction of multiple cytokines and chemokines over approximately 24 hours supports the PK “pulse” and PD “prime” hypothesis for the Decoy20 immune-oncology strategy.

On Sept, 29, Tribe Public hosted a Webinar Presentation and Q&A Event titled “Immunotherapy Reimagined” Indaptus Therapeutics’ (NASDAQ: INDP) CEO, Jeffrey Meckler delivered a presentation & also addressed a 5-10 minute Q&A session at the end of the presentation. You may view it now by clicking here. 


Learn more about Indaptus Therapeutics (NASDAQ: INDP) at the VP Watchlist page by clicking here.

Our sister organization, Tribe Public hosted a CEO Presentation and Q&A Webinar-based Event Tuesday, October 31 that was co-hosted by NAYA Biosciences (NAYA) Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Dr. Daniel Teper and was titled “Accelerating Biotech Value Creation”.   The event video is now published at the Tribe’s YouTube Channel and has now been viewed over 9k times. 

Dr. Teper has over 30 years of leadership experience as a biopharma entrepreneur, corporate executive, and management consultant. Previously, Dr. Teper was the Chairman & CEO of Cytovia Therapeutics, from 2019 to 2023, where he remains Chairman of the Board. Dr. Teper brings extensive experience. From 2011 to 2017, he was the CEO of Immune Pharmaceuticals, which he listed on NASDAQ. He previously served as New York-based Managing Partner (Head of North America) at Bionest Partners, now Accenture, where he advised companies on corporate strategy and business development. He was previously a Partner at ISO Healthcare Group, now Deloitte Monitor, in New York. Dr. Teper helped drive the accelerated growth of Softwatch, a pioneer digital health company, as senior vice president of sales and business development. He also served as global president of Havas Health, advising companies on global launches of major new drugs in multiple disease areas. Dr. Teper started his career at Novartis in Basel and then in the US, where he held management responsibilities in sales and marketing and as head of cardiovascular, new product development. Dr. Teper held general management positions in Europe at GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi. He was the co-founder and CEO of Wintec Pharma, a European specialty pharmaceutical company focused on anti-infectives and dermatology, which he went on to sell. Dr. Teper co-founded Novagali, an ophthalmology specialty pharma later listed on EuroNext Paris and acquired by Japan’s Santen. He holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Paris XI University and an MBA from INSEAD, where he was the J. Salmon scholar.



NAYA Biosciences is building a group of agile, disruptive, high-growth companies dedicated to increasing patient access to life-transforming treatments in oncology, fertility, and regenerative medicine.  NAYA’s capabilities in biology, cell and gene therapy, and artificial intelligence (AI) provide a synergistic platform for the accelerated clinical development and commercialization of these breakthrough treatments.  

  • NAYA Oncology aims to achieve clinical proof-of-concept for its two bispecific antibodies acquired from Cytovia Therapeutics, with the goal of advancing towards breakthrough outcomes for Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Multiple Myeloma patients. Clinical trials are expected to start in 2024.
  • NAYA Fertility aims to increase accessibility to advanced fertility care through a growing network of INVO-owned and affiliated clinics and the commercialization of INVO’s unique FDA-cleared INVOcell® device.
  • NAYA Regenerative Medicine is evaluating the acquisition of clinic-stage assets aiming to restore biological function in patients with damaged tissues and organs.

Last Monday, INVO, a healthcare services company focused on expanding access to advanced fertility treatment worldwide, and NAYA Biosciences Inc. (“NAYA”), a company dedicated to increasing patient access to breakthrough treatments in oncology and regenerative medicine, today jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement (the “Merger”) for INVO to acquire NAYA Biosciences in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, NAYA Biosciences’ shareholders will receive 7.3333 shares of INVO for each share of NAYA Biosciences at closing, for a total of approximately 18,150,000 shares of INVO. Following the closing of the Merger, the combined company is expected to operate under the name “NAYA Biosciences”. Dr. Daniel Teper, currently Chairman & CEO of NAYA Biosciences, will be named Chairman & CEO of the combined company. Under the terms of the merger agreement, pending approval of the transaction by INVO’s, Cytovia’s, and NAYA’s stockholders and subject to key closing conditions, INVO will acquire 100% of the outstanding equity interests in NAYA by means of a reverse triangular merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of INVO with and into NAYA, with NAYA surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of INVO (the “Merger”). On Friday, INVO shares closed at $1.30.



Shares of Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company seeking to discover and develop innovative medicines in areas of significant unmet medical need in oncology, with a current focus on breast cancer and radiation-induced lung injury, closed at $.70, +4.48% over the last 5-days and is up 32.08% YTD.

On Aug. 14, Atossa announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, and provides an update on recent company developments highlighted by the following: Achieved significant enrollment milestones in three ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials, Broadened patent protection for proprietary (Z)-endoxifen, Strengthened management team with appointment of Greg Weaver as Chief Financial Officer, & Ended second quarter 2023 with $99.4 million of cash and cash equivalents.

 

 

Shares of ADT Inc. (ADT), the most trusted brand in smart home and small business security, closed at $6.13, +7.73% over the last 5-days. ADT released its third quarter 2023 financial results this week and beat expectations. They highlighted the following progress: Significant balance sheet improvement driven by divestiture of commercial business, Record high CSB recurring monthly revenue balance driven by strong retention, Improved capital efficiency with record revenue payback of 2.0 years, & Continued innovation in core smart home security markets and rationalization of solar footprint.

On Oct. 2, GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced that it has closed the acquisition of ADT’s commercial security, fire and life safety security businessfrom ADT Inc. (“ADT”, NYSE: ADT). Moving forward as a standalone organization, ADT Commercial will rebrand as Everon. GTCR will partner with former Protection1 executives Dan Bresingham and Tim Whall, along with other members of ADTC leadership, to acquire the Company, one of the leading national providers of electronic security and fire safety services to commercial enterprises and multi-site national accounts. Mr. Bresingham, former leader of ADT’s commercial security, fire and life safety business, will become Chief Executive Officer of Everon and Mr. Whall will serve as an active director on the Company’s Board.


Shares of Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (SHIP), the only pure-play Capesize ship-owner publicly listed in the U.S. closed at $5.10, -8.11% over the last 5 days. On Aug. 2, Seanergy announced its financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2023.  They highlighted that Fleet Time Charter Equivalent (“TCE” 3) overperformance of Baltic Capesize Index (“BCI”) by 20% in 2Q23 & 1H23, a Quarterly cash dividend of $0.025 per share for Q2 2023 – total cash dividends of $1.325 per share or $23.9 million declared since March 2022,  a stock buyback of $1.6 million, or approximately 2% of its issued and outstanding shares – total repurchases of securities (common shares, convertible notes and warrants) of approximately $39.6 million since November 2021, an Agreement to acquire a 2011-built Newcastlemax dry bulk vessel through a 12-month bareboat charter with a purchase option, & $53.8 million in refinancings during the second quarter, on improved terms, adding $15.0 million of extra liquidity and removing any loan maturities until Q2 2025.


Brad Hansen CEO of Holu Hou Energy (HHE), a company that uniquely brings state-of-the-art renewable energy and energy storage systems to the Single-Family Residential, Multi-Dwelling Unit Residential, and Commercial building markets, presented at our sister organization’s Tribe Public Webinar Presentation and Q&A Event titled “Discover How Multi-Dwelling Units Are Profitably Implementing Solar Energy Today.” The event video has now been published at the Tribe Public YouTube Channel and can be view now by clicking on this link

Note that HHE was recognized as the 2023 winner of the Innovative Tech Company of the Year at the 13th annual Pacific Edge Business Achievement Awards Gala in Honolulu, Hawai’i. With operations in California, Hawai’i, Wisconsin, and Shanghai, HHE engineers proprietary storage system and control platform solutions, including a breakthrough HHE “EnergyCluster” technology that is key to the development of the Multi-Dwelling Unit Residential housing market that uniquely allows for sharing amongst local units of excess energy created by solar energy production. This technology uniquely solves the key problems for installing solar energy for MDU tenant units: tenant load variability and tenant churn. Thus, HHE is essentially good for all parties. It is a vital partner for investors and asset owners who are seeking MDU renewable energy solutions that create a new and significant multi-year revenue stream. For tenants, the adoption is non-disruptive and, in practice, allows for energy control and localized resiliency. 

On Nov. 2, Holu Hou Energy LLC announced that it is has closed a $20M construction financing facility in support of the construction of Hawaii’s largest solar and energy storage project pipeline. The funding will enable procurement of the materials and EPC resources to construct MDU projects slated for completion in the next 4-quarters. HHE’s EnergyCluster Technology has  reportedly enabled the Largest Non-Utility Solar Project Pipeline in Hawaii – Approaching $1.0 Billion in Value.

 

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Investing & Inspiration

  1. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
  2. “Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.”  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  4. “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
  5. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
  6. “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” – George Eliot
  7. “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
  8. “Care and diligence bring luck.” – Thomas Fuller
  9. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke
  10. “A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.” – George Savile
  11. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
  12. “Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” – John Ruskin
  13. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
  14. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” –  Marcel Proust
  15. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
  16. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson
  17. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
  18. “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”– Samuel Smiles
  19. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain
  20. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh
  21. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
  22. “Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” – Walter Anderson
  23. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
  24. “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden
  25. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
  26. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
  27. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” – Robert Kiyosaki
  28. “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  29. “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.” – Elon Musk
  30. “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” – John Boyle O’Reilly
  31. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  32. “Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” – Boris Pasternak
  33. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
  34. “It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” – Blaise Pascal
  35. “Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.” – Meister Eckhart
  36. “Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.” – Leo Buscaglia
  37. “Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” – Wordsworth
  38. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
  39. “A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.” – Tecumseh
  40. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  41. “There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.” – Louis XIV
  42. “The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
  43. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
  44. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” – Barack Obama
  45. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
  46. “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  47. “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” – Thor Heyerdahl
  48. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
  49. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

  50. “I want to put a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs

  51. “Research is creating new knowledge.” – Neil Armstrong

  52. “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” – Jonas Salk
  53. “Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.” – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  54. “There’s something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.” – Ken Kesey
  55. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather

  56. “The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.” – Nadia Boulanger
  57. “More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.” – Rose Kennedy

  58. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes

  59. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” – Mark Twain
  60. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

  61. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
  62. “Without labor nothing prospers.” – Sophocles

  63. “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” – Albert Einstein
  64. “This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.” – Hannah Arendt

  65. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

  66. “He who is brave is free.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  67. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk

  68. “I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” – Auguste Rodin

  69. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

  70. “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” – Lao Tzu

  71. “Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” – Stewart Udall
  72. “In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama

  73. “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan
  74. “Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.” – Kevin Brady
  75. “If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.” – Allu Arjun
  76. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” ~ George S. Patton
  77. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
  78. “Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
  79. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
  80. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
  81. “And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.” – Black Elk
  82. “Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.” – Joseph Hall
  83. “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” – Maya Angelou
  84. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” – Clint Eastwood
  85. “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” – Ray Bradbury
  86. “If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.” – Confucius
  87. “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” – Robert H. Schuller
  88. Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” Desmond Tutu
  89. “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” – Thomas Sowell
  90. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha”
  91. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” –  Boris Pasternak
  92. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” – Khalil Gibran 
  93. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
  94. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  95. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” –  Colin Powell
  96. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  97. “Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.” – Allen Klein
  98. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
  99. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
  100. “In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.” – Albert Einstein
  101. “Life is too short for long-term grudges.” – Elon Musk
  102. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.” – Henry Kissinger
  103. “Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” – Oliver Goldsmith
  104. “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
  105. “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” – Omar N. Bradley
  106. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” – Rumi
  107. “But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” – Ernest Hemingway
  108. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
  109. “Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” – Nelson Mandela
  110. “The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.” – John Maynard Keynes
  111. “A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.” – Robert Trout
  112. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein
  113. “It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” – Blaise Pascal
  114. “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” – W. Edwards Deming
  115. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
  116. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln
  117. “Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.” – Muhtar Kent
  118. “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Abraham Lincoln
  119. “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy
  120. “Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!” – Donna Karan
  121. “It’s crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.” – Nathan Chen
  122. “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein
  123. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
  124. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
  125. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell
  126. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
  127. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
  128. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
  129. “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” – Thor Heyerdahl
  130. “I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.” – Michael J. Fox
  131. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
  132. “But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.” – Bill Nye
  133. “Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.” – Andrew Ross Sorkin
  134. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” – Charlie Chaplin
  135. “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.” – Demi Lovato
  136. “Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions.” – Oren Etzioni
  137. “Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country’s future.” – Sheldon Whitehouse
  138. “Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” – Sun Tzu
  139. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  140. “Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.” – Franz Liszt
  141. “The sofa is a really important investment for anybody, and I don’t mean financially. You need to find a really great sofa that can transition with you, and you can build from there.” – Jeremiah Brent
  142. “There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.” – Orison Swett Marden
  143. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie
  144. “There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.” – Louis XIV
  145. “In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It’s the same with investment.” – Masayoshi Son
  146. “A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.” – Jackie Kennedy
  147. “The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.” – Bill Gates
  148. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius, Chinese 
  149. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale
  150. “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”– Albert Einstein
  151. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey
  152. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson
  153. “In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?” – Li Lu
  154. “A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.” – Robert Trout
  155. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  156. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel
  157. “Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.” – Liya Kebede
  158. “Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” – Mike Ditka
  159. “No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” – Jessica Savitch 
  160. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”– Arthur Ashe
  161. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
  162. “The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.” – Drew Bledsoe

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