Warren Buffett Quotes

I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

Warren Buffett

• Bad
• Die
• Rest
• Study
• Failure
• Partner
• Complacency

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• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Book
  • Bad

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Rest

• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Study
  • Stress
  • Year

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Failure

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• I'm bad at returning phone calls.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Phone
  • Returning

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Book
  • First
  • Concern

• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• We need to move back toward a free market.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Free

• If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as their motive either to see us out of debt to them or to strengthen our economy, society, international influence, or other elements of our way of life.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Life
  • May
  • Society

• 'Selvandhan' is my first dubbed venture, which will release simultaneously with the original. It is a family drama. It has familiar Tamil faces, and I hope it does well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Drama

• I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.

  

  Pamela Anderson

• The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • May
  • Reader
  • Fail

• I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Rest