Mario Andretti Quotes

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Mario Andretti

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Drawing

• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Think
  • Today
  • Spirit

• It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Important
  • Future
  • Failure

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Respect

• Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Reputation

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Wind
  • Smoke

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Healthy
  • Youth
  • Debate

• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Myself

• Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • English
  • Manage
  • Languages

• It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we put ourselves inside the stories we photograph. He always strove for the decisive moment as being the most important. I always work for a group of pictures, to tell a story. If you ask which picture in a story I like most, it is impossible for me to tell you this. I don't work for an individual picture. If I must select one individual picture for a client, it is very difficult for me.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Honor

• If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system, but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Nature

• It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Long
  • Control

• The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Opportunity
  • First Thing

• What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Heart
  • Business