Mohnish Pabrai Quotes
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
-
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
-
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
-
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
-
I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
-
The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
-
There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
-
My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
-
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
-
Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
-
This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
-
You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
-
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
-
I loved my country, and I hated him.
-
'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
-
Inside every anarchist is a failed dictator.
-
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
-
My health is very good.
-
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
-
For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.
-
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
-
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
