Mohnish Pabrai Quotes

It is the performance of the business that matters. It is hard enough to figure out the future of the business. Do not try to figure out the future of the country or the world; focus on the business.

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• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.

  

  T.I.
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Attention

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • American
  • Alone
  • Movies

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• I secretly want to be a rapper!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Want
  • Rapper
  • Secretly

• What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Magical

• In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Jews
  • Jew
  • Defending

• Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • You
  • Know

• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Feel

• I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Real

• We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Senses

• I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Country
  • Heart

• I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Country

• It is the performance of the business that matters. It is hard enough to figure out the future of the business. Do not try to figure out the future of the country or the world; focus on the business.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Country
  • Business
  • Performance