Mohnish Pabrai Quotes
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
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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.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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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.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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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.
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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.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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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.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
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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.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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I loved my country, and I hated him.
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'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
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When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
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The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
