Whitney Tilson Quotes

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

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• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Never
  • Afraid

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Hand
  • Growth
  • Values

• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Always
  • Never

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Free
  • You
  • Retirement

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Profound

• In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Dress
  • Burned
  • Casual

• I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

  

  Vanity
  • Time
  • Crying
  • Vanity

• When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Good
  • Character
  • Blessed

• We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Need

• I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Angry
  • Nervous
  • Upset

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • True
  • Success
  • Self

• You can surrenderWithout a prayerBut never really prayPray without surrenderYou can fightWithout ever winningBut never ever winWithout a fight - Resist (1996)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Fear

• A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Army
  • Sides
  • Terrorism

• I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Pretty
  • Learning
  • Fashion

• We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film with black people in it - I've been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that's not true.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• I have had death threats from people with fixations.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • People
  • Death

• Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

  

  Whitney Tilson
  • Independent
  • Helpful
  • Investor