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“I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.”

Thinking May Chance Company Thousand Selling Investors Chances Are Enron

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Film Fighting Chance Audience Mines Thousand Dramatic Buying Tickets One Chance

Author:Woody Allen

“Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.”

Wells Character Age Speak Parent Chance Five Thousand Twenties Clean Photograph Average Thirty Justified Initials Twenty Five Birthright Nicknames Composites Clean Living

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?”

Years Heart Might Turns Chance Walks Trouble One Day Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Convenient Heart Attack

Author:Garth Nix

“Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?”

Wanted Success Chance Comfort Thousand Flying Creeps One Chance

Author:Gail Godwin

“Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.”

Ifs Looks May Action Chance Study Streets Thousand Hundred Conscience Excuse Witness Thee Retirement Multitudes Thyself

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.”

Ifs Years Believe Facts Problem I Believe Chance Events Thousand Prepared Financial Selling Zero Flood Thousand Years Be Prepared Jackets Unprepared Financial Problems

Author:Warren Buffett

“The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!”

World I Can Character Stories Three Next Waiting Chance Fantasy Gone Adventure Thousand Ten Originals Clouds Plot Surprising Diverse Engaging Thrilling

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.”

“History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us, but through every gate are a thousand more. We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us.”

Way Needs Moments Chance Thousand Wit Gates Mist Gatekeepers

Author:Alexander Herzen