Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-Thomas Dewar
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
-Ayn Rand
Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
-Benjamin Morrell
Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
-J. Marriott Jr.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
-Bela Karolyi
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
-Michael Gerber
Never cut what you can untie.
-Joseph Joubert
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
-Winston Churchill
Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.
-Doug Williams
Your greatest resource is your time.
-Brian Tracy
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-Buddha
You're never beaten until you admit it.
-George S. Patton
You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
-Lee Iacocca
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
MORE COOL QUOTES
"It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something."
-Jack Handey
"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
-Phyllis Diller
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."
-Fats Domino
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-Winston Churchill
"The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did! Good for him!"
-Jack Handey
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
-Edgar Bergen
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
-Truman Capote
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
-Bill Cosby
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
-Groucho Marx
"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
-Carol Burnett
"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."
-Nancy Mitford
"Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected."
-Red Buttons
"Youth is wasted on the young."
-George Bernard Shaw
"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."
-Fran Lebowitz
"Never have children, only grandchildren."
-Gore Vidal
"My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one."
-Groucho Marx
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
-Phyllis Diller
"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
-Robert Orben
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
-George Burns
"He who laughs last didn't get it."
-Helen Giangregorio
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million." --
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."
-Bill Vaughan
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
-Yogi Berra
"Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box."
-Wil Shriner
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-Woody Allen
"How could they tell? " (upon hearing that President Coolidge had died)
-Dorothy Parker
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
-Woody Allen
"For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
-Johnny Carson
"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead."
-Woody Allen
"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates."
-Dave Barry
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-Jack Handey
"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
-Phyllis Diller
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."
-Fats Domino
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-Winston Churchill
"The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did! Good for him!"
-Jack Handey
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
-Edgar Bergen
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
-Truman Capote
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
-Bill Cosby
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
-Groucho Marx
"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
-Carol Burnett
"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."
-Nancy Mitford
"Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected."
-Red Buttons
"Youth is wasted on the young."
-George Bernard Shaw
"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."
-Fran Lebowitz
"Never have children, only grandchildren."
-Gore Vidal
"My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one."
-Groucho Marx
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
-Phyllis Diller
"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
-Robert Orben
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
-George Burns
"He who laughs last didn't get it."
-Helen Giangregorio
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million." --
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."
-Bill Vaughan
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
-Yogi Berra
"Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box."
-Wil Shriner
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-Woody Allen
"How could they tell? " (upon hearing that President Coolidge had died)
-Dorothy Parker
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
-Woody Allen
"For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
-Johnny Carson
"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead."
-Woody Allen
"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates."
-Dave Barry
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Very cooool quotes! Just read for fun.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
What Famous People Think of Fashion
“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.”
-Imelda Marcos
“A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.”
-Oscar Wilde
“All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.”
-Helena Rubinstein
“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”
-Edith Head
“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.”
-Manolo Blahnik
“When in doubt, wear red.”
-Bill Blass
“I don't do fashion, I am fashion.”
-Coco Chanel
“They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A good model can advance fashion by ten years.”
-Yves Saint Laurent
“I don't design clothes. I design dreams.”
-Ralph Lauren
“A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
-Sophia Loren
“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”
-Coco Chanel
“The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.”
-Giorgio Armani
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
-Alexander Pope
“I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.”
-Coco Chanel
“In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.”
-Elsa Schiaparelli
“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.”
-Oleg Cassini
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.”
-Bruce Oldfield
“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
-Edwin Hubbel
“I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.”
-Gilda Radner
“Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.”
-Karl Lagerfeld
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
-Jean Cocteau
“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
-Quentin Crisp
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.”
-Hubert de Givenchy
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
-George Santayana
“Today, fashion is really about sensuality—how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies—they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.”
-Donna Karan
“Respect is love in plain clothes.”
-Frankie Byrne
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
-Henry J. Kaiser
“The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
-Aesop
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on witha pitchfork.
-Jonathan Swift
“When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.”
-Albert Einstein
“Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.”
-Herbert Harold Vreeland
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
-Anatole France
“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
-Dave Barry
“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman."
-Mary Kay Ashe
“The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.”
-Pierre Cardin
“I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.”
-Katharine Hepburn
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-Mark Twain
“The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”
-Dale Carnegie
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-Imelda Marcos
“A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.”
-Oscar Wilde
“All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.”
-Helena Rubinstein
“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”
-Edith Head
“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.”
-Manolo Blahnik
“When in doubt, wear red.”
-Bill Blass
“I don't do fashion, I am fashion.”
-Coco Chanel
“They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A good model can advance fashion by ten years.”
-Yves Saint Laurent
“I don't design clothes. I design dreams.”
-Ralph Lauren
“A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
-Sophia Loren
“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”
-Coco Chanel
“The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.”
-Giorgio Armani
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
-Alexander Pope
“I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.”
-Coco Chanel
“In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.”
-Elsa Schiaparelli
“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.”
-Oleg Cassini
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.”
-Bruce Oldfield
“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
-Edwin Hubbel
“I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.”
-Gilda Radner
“Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.”
-Karl Lagerfeld
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
-Jean Cocteau
“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
-Quentin Crisp
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.”
-Hubert de Givenchy
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
-George Santayana
“Today, fashion is really about sensuality—how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies—they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.”
-Donna Karan
“Respect is love in plain clothes.”
-Frankie Byrne
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
-Henry J. Kaiser
“The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
-Aesop
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on witha pitchfork.
-Jonathan Swift
“When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.”
-Albert Einstein
“Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.”
-Herbert Harold Vreeland
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
-Anatole France
“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
-Dave Barry
“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman."
-Mary Kay Ashe
“The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.”
-Pierre Cardin
“I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.”
-Katharine Hepburn
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-Mark Twain
“The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”
-Dale Carnegie
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Wow! Great fashion statements!
Where to find MORE about fashion? Click HERE
Friday, August 7, 2009
TOP 20 Love Quotes
#1"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
-Oscar Wilde
#2The best things in life can never be kept;They must be given away.A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
-Tony Farrar
#3"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln
#4"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
-Doug Larson
#5"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
-Audrey Hepburn
#6Follow your own heart, Not others.
-Unknown
#7There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-George Sand
#8"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#9"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
-Sir Walter Besant
#10"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
-Eschylus
#11"The primordial power is ever at play.She is creating, preserving, and destroying in play, as it were.. The Divine Mother wants to continue playing with Her created beings."
-Ramakrishna Paramahansa
#12"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland
#13"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
-Rabindernath Tagore
#14"A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with."
-Unknown
#15"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world."
-Chinese Proverb
#16"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-Dale Carnegie
#17"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
#18"If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter."
-Henry Elliot
#19"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
-The Bible
#20"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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LOVELY quotes for those whose in-love.Last time it's Top 10 now I make it 20 according to www.lovequotescollection.com
-Oscar Wilde
#2The best things in life can never be kept;They must be given away.A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
-Tony Farrar
#3"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln
#4"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
-Doug Larson
#5"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
-Audrey Hepburn
#6Follow your own heart, Not others.
-Unknown
#7There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-George Sand
#8"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#9"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
-Sir Walter Besant
#10"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
-Eschylus
#11"The primordial power is ever at play.She is creating, preserving, and destroying in play, as it were.. The Divine Mother wants to continue playing with Her created beings."
-Ramakrishna Paramahansa
#12"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland
#13"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
-Rabindernath Tagore
#14"A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with."
-Unknown
#15"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world."
-Chinese Proverb
#16"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-Dale Carnegie
#17"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
#18"If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter."
-Henry Elliot
#19"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
-The Bible
#20"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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LOVELY quotes for those whose in-love.Last time it's Top 10 now I make it 20 according to www.lovequotescollection.com
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
TOP 10 List of Leadership Quotes
According to this site, here are the TOP 10 List of Quotes About Leadership:
Favorite Leadership Quotes #1
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Favorite Leadership Quotes #2
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Favorite Leadership Quotes #3
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower
Favorite Leadership Quotes #4
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Favorite Leadership Quotes #5
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
Favorite Leadership Quotes #6
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
Favorite Leadership Quotes #7
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half
Favorite Leadership Quotes #8
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx
Favorite Leadership Quotes #9
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
Favorite Leadership Quotes #10
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Great words of wisdom to motivate our leaders and those who inspire to become one.
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Favorite Leadership Quotes #1
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
Favorite Leadership Quotes #2
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Favorite Leadership Quotes #3
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower
Favorite Leadership Quotes #4
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Favorite Leadership Quotes #5
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
Favorite Leadership Quotes #6
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
Favorite Leadership Quotes #7
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half
Favorite Leadership Quotes #8
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx
Favorite Leadership Quotes #9
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
Favorite Leadership Quotes #10
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Great words of wisdom to motivate our leaders and those who inspire to become one.
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Warren Buffet's Quotes
Famous Quotes by Warren Buffett
Born: 1930-08-30
I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.
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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
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If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
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Our favourite holding period is forever.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. (on junk bonds)
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Warren Buffet was one of the world's riches yet he has very simple standard of living. Check-out his biography.
Warren Buffet's Biography
MORE Famous Quotations and Sayings
Born: 1930-08-30
I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.
***
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
***
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
***
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
***
It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
***
Our favourite holding period is forever.
***
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. (on junk bonds)
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Warren Buffet was one of the world's riches yet he has very simple standard of living. Check-out his biography.
Warren Buffet's Biography
MORE Famous Quotations and Sayings
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