Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT) is a publicly traded investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange. It invests globally, looking for strong businesses with above-average returns. Scottish Mortgage is managed by Baillie Gifford & Co, the Edinburgh based investment management partnership.
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“I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his boots, I carry Concord ground in my boots and in my hat,—and am I not made of Concord dust? I cannot realize that it is the roar of the sea I hear now, and not the wind in Walden woods. I find more of Concord, after all, in the prospect of the sea, beyond Sandy Hook, than in the fields and woods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)