Warren Buffett Quotes
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
-
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
-
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
-
In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
-
I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
-
I love anything to do with history.
-
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
-
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
-
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
-
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
-
You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
-
We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
-
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
-
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
-
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
-
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
-
I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
-
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
-
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.
-
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
