“I’d say that Berkshire Hathaway’s system is adapting to the nature of the investment problem as it really is. We’ve really made the money out of high quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But when you analyze what happened, the big money’s been made in the high quality businesses. And most of the other people who’ve made a lot of money have done so in high quality businesses.” PeopleMadeDoneWholeProblemBigsQualityCasesHappenedInvestmentBlockLots Of MoneyHigh QualityAdapting Author:Charlie Munger
“I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"” ThinkingLooksLittlesBigsBitsCasesWalkingLittle BitShoesTorture Author:Charlize Theron
“One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.” PeopleBigsArtistDifferencesCasesEgoOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleBig Ego Author:Charles Atlas
“At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.” IfsMenWayShouldMindMayBigsRememberEffortBusinessCasesRiskFashionCrimePositionPoliticianLet MeFortuneCriminalsDamageBetrayRepetitionHuntsExposureBig BusinessResoluteImmunitySensationalBusiness Man Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.” PeopleThinkingEndsFactsUseBigsRunningLyingEnemyPovertyCasesFrontsVoteSocialismLabelsCaliforniaTicketsSocialistEpicSlogansAttacking Book:The Jungle Source: The Jungle
“Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing.” YearsBodyBigsEffortCasesClothesYears AgoSizeConvincedYour BodyDenial Author:Stacy London
“Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.” IfsMenShouldSaidIdeasBigsFeltLordCasesParticularDiscoveryIdealsPossessedBig IdeasIdeal Man Book:My Inventions: And Other Writings Source: My Inventions: And Other Writings
“The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.” KnowsNeedsHumansLongPlayCharacterBigsOrderStepsCasesLaughingTaughtHumourTvsDramaLong TimeLaughterJokesTragedyInsightActressesRealisingSeventiesGreat WritersArthurAuschwitzChekhovGallows Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous when one church official told me after the debate when a big crowd of people surrounded me that he had assigned me a body guard "just in case." Just in case what? I thought Christians were suppose to be exceptionally tolerant. Well, in any case, I guess I was grateful for the gesture, "just in case."” PeopleWellsLittlesBodyBigsChristianChurchCasesAtheismGratefulCrowdsDebateNervousEveningOfficialsOrganizedGesturesPolite Author:Michael Shermer
“When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.” IfsWorldWayWarSoulBigsScienceFallLostWishFearLossMoneyCasesShareEventsHotAskingSavedMy SoulAgentsEaseWar Of The WorldsPrizeWorld War IiWorld War IPotatoesNobelLumpsNobel Prize Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPersonsEnoughBodyBigsSeemsCarePainForceInterestKnownCasesNiceOughtHappeningsPraiseFilledSaintIllnessAbout YourselfReach OutGood WillBringing Out The BestEnough Pain Book:Put out the light Source: Put out the light
“I think the way WWE Studios is going now - they're going away from action, doing more drama, more comedy - it will open a lot of people's eyes. Because a lot of people see big guy, big frame: action superstar. We've proven, especially with 'Legendary,' that that is not always the case.” PeopleThinkingWayBigsEyeActionGuyCasesComedyDramaStudiosGoing AwayWweProvenSuperstarLegendaryBig Guys Author:John Cena
“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.” PeopleWorldPlayBigsUsedCasesGrowing UpGrowingStreetsGrewGrew UpTownsGuitarThrownFestivalsOntario Author:Justin Bieber
“I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is how big these public goods are, where they exist, things of that sort.” PeopleThinkingBigsCasesFailingBenefitsDebateGoodsCapture Author:Peter Thiel
“Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.” WantBigsNextCasesOne ThingMissingHollywoodBig Things Author:Naomie Harris
“Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.” IfsThinkingMenBigsCoursesCasesReflectionOrganizationManagementExceptionalAvoided Book:Adventures of a White-Collar Man Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man
“I certainly don't agree with the bodybuilders who say you can get big forearms just by squeezing the dumbbell handles when doing curls. In a few cases this may be true, but those guys would build big forearms by merely eating eggs in the morning. Most bodybuilders, myself included, have to work very hard for any kind of meaningful forearm development.” KindMayHardBigsGuyMorningCasesDevelopmentEatingAgreeMeaningfulHandleBeing TrueEggsCurlsSqueezingBodybuilderDumbbells Author:Lou Ferrigno
“The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding.” HelpingBigsCasesSkillsGainsSolveHelp MeAmbitiousPerpetualSchedulesFeverPublic SpeakingCabinsNew Skills Author:Andrew Skurka
“In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.” WorldSelfBigsForceLinesBehindsCasesProjectsSelf ConfidenceIslamicSecularLackingDominantVacuumsResistingUnsureIslamists Author:Tariq Ali
“So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWholeBigsAbleTogetherYoungSexCasesLaughingCry Author:Don Rickles
“Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldMindBigsCasesFighterSeatsEnginesPilotsSmoothDwellingAircraftObtainingRunway Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your head. What we call fascism and things like that. It is about egoism. When you are egoistic enough you avoid such things. You become an incurable individualist and in that case you are sailing in your own sea anyway. What is very enjoyable for the individualist is to find this kind of "happy spaces" to be in and to live in.” BelieveKindEnoughBigsI BelieveSpaceCasesCuttingSeaTendenciesFascismSailingEnjoyableEgoism Author:Odd Nerdrum
“Whoever makes big records is a winner to me. Not the person with the mumbo jumbo, or the biggest diss record, or whatever the case may be. In the end of the day, whoever is most successful, whoever puts out a big record, wins the battle.” MayPersonsEndsBigsWinningCasesSuccessfulRecordsBattleWinnerThe End Of The Day Author:Fat Joe
“I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.” PeopleKnowsEndsHardDoneCharacterStoriesBigsWould BePastFilmOrderCasesCuttingOughtSpeechCaringChecksRepresentativesEditsNot Caring Author:Jeff Bridges
“I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayBigsFilmCultureI BelieveCommunityCasesColorTheaterStudiosI Believe InAccessChainsGenreMexicoBelieve In MeLatinoBlockbusterIndie Films Author:Aurora Guerrero
“I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.” ThinkingBigsProcessCasesComedyFansAppreciateImprovisationCleverness Author:Alan Thicke
“I suppose it is a bit of a date that we're having at the moment. As is usually the case you don't get married on a first date, you've got to go out a few times before you make any big decisions.” FirstsMomentsBigsBitsDecisionCasesMarriedFirst DateBig Decisions Author:Aidy Boothroyd
“I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.” Has BeensMadeBigsPastMistakeCasesDoubtNo DoubtTestingRidersOffendersBig Mistake Author:Patrik Sinkewitz
“There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.” PeopleIfsWorldEnoughBigsRealityHappensBornCasesImagineMinutesEffectsBelieverThings HappenRestraintPuppetsPredestinationBig Changes Author:Neil Peart
“Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.” IfsWellsLooksBigsLightMovingWhiteCompanyCasesPopulationOperationsImmigrantsSouthernHemisphereScientologyBig CompaniesSalvageSouthern Africa Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsShouldTryingLooksLittlesUseBigsMovingBitsTermCasesFantasyInformationFootballLittle BitAdvantageDataNflRegulationTradingInsidersMoving AwayFantasy Football Author:Jeb Bush
“It wouldn't be bad to have the Secret Service keeping an eye on my teenage daughter. I personally am not troubled by the fact that there would be a couple of big guys with earpieces beside her, just in case.” FactsBigsWould BeEyeGuySecretCasesCoupleDaughterTeenageSecret ServiceBig GuysTeenage Daughter Author:Marco Rubio