Mohnish Pabrai Quotes

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Mohnish Pabrai

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• Original
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• I am pretty self-indulgent.

  

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• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

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• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

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• I take a lot of pictures.

  

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  • Take
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• I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

  

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• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

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• Ricky Gervais is a genius.

  

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• It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

  

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• The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.

  

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• I worked on a farm for a little bit.

  

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  • Little
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• As for Sisley, I just can't enjoy his work visiting the Paris Impressionism-exhibition of art-dealer M. Petit, May 1887, it is commonplace, forced, disordered; Sisley has a good eye, and his work will certainly charm all those whose artistic sense is not very refined.

  

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  • Good
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• I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

  

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• In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

  

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• Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'

  

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• Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

  

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• People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

  

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• When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.

  

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  David Korten
  • Society
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• I like to look at American and European street style. Basically, I look at things I like and want to buy, just like everyone else. But having said that, I think that it can be a bad idea to pay too close attention to someone else's total look.

  

  Yang Mi
  • Thinking
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• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • American
  • Proud
  • Original