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.
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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.'
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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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.
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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.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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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.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I'm bad at returning phone calls.
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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.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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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.
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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.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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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.
