“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ”
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Forecast- a Future Prediction
“Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”
Saving Money
“It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.”
Rich
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. ”
I really become discouraged
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Rearview Mirror
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
Poker
“If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”
Baby-Talent, Efforts
“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
Human characteristic
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ”
Drift in that direction
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
Never lose money
“Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.”
Naked Swimming
“You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.”
Right Things > Wrong one
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
Energy
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
Risk
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing”
War Winning
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Reputation
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.”
Maa
A woman brought you into this world, So you have no right to DISRESPECT one.
Just sit and think
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
Luckiest one per cent of humanity
“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
