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“You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.”

Evil Taxes Selling Firm Shelter Schemes Clients

Author:Charlie Munger

“My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.”

Shows Used My Own Mom Taste My Mom Selling Hated Take Me Exposed Antiques Eclectic Really Amazing

Author:Jason Wu

“I don't know what it was like in the '80s. I don't really even know what it was like in the '90s, because I was broke and wasn't selling any art. I was in a few group shows, but I didn't have a gallery until 2006.”

Knows Art Shows Groups Selling Broke 80s Gallery

Author:Wade Guyton

“I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.”

Said Inspiration Wanted Father Growing Up Growing Brother Ethics Selling My Brother Yards Work Ethic Chips Cookies Bananas

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?”

Ifs Want Wells Guy Turns Waiting Hell Minutes Europe Cameras Selling Asia Turn-on Tubes Selling Something

Author:John Slattery

“The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk.”

People Ifs Giving Years Mean Guy Loses Millions Five Risk Ten Losing Credit Selling Incentives That Guy Default Losing Money Credit Default Swap

Author:Richard Thaler

“The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call "skin in the game," where they've got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults.”

People Ifs Should Writing Guy Games Pay Should Have Skins Selling Mortgage Default Brokers

Author:Richard Thaler

“Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that's really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.”

People Thinking Helping Pay Willing Balance Credit Partners Selling Cards Consumers Trusted Credit Card

Author:Richard Thaler

“Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'”

Thinking Knows Years Looks Said Bigs Waiting Millions Know How Selling Sat Buying Fund Treasury Hedge Fund Buying And Selling

Author:Charlie Munger

“Always look for forced urgent selling.”

Looks Selling Urgent

Author:Seth Klarman

“What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.”

Littles Has Beens Might Individual Company Millions Pieces Paper Dollars Billions Selling Fascinating Owners Might Have Been Borrowed Valuation

Author:Charlie Munger

“We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.”

Past Pieces Happened Higher Activity Paper Consequence Envy Selling Eras Engaged Buying Imitation Feeding Trading Promoting Percentages Buying And Selling

Author:Charlie Munger

“I knew a guy who had $5 million and owned his house free and clear. But he wanted to make a bit more money to support his spending, so at the peak of the internet bubble he was selling puts on internet stocks. He lost all of his money and his house and now works in a restaurant. It's not a smart thing for the country to legalize gambling [in the stock market] and make it very accessible.”

Country Wanted Guy House Lost Bits Millions Support Clear Internet Smart Spending Selling Restaurants Gambling Bubbles More Money

Author:Charlie Munger

“The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.”

Thinking Values Security Concepts Selling Buying Owners Motivated Momentum Outdated Intrinsic Value Buying And Selling

Author:Charlie Munger

“I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.”

Children Important Country Historical Intention Possession Selling Permanent My Children Museums Portions Display Items Loan Apollo Suitable Apollo 11

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.”

Ifs Want Mean Party Wonder Cutting Republican Right Now Taxes Selling Torture Republican Party Tax Cuts Branded

Author:Chris Matthews

“Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives." Nouwen changed his approach from "selling pearls," or peddling the good news, to "hunting for the treasure" already present in those he was called to love - a shift from dispensing religion to dispensing grace. It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.”

World Realizing Differences Views Grace Changed Approach News Humble Neighbor Treasure Selling Hunting Pearls Good News Peddling

Author:Philip Yancey

“The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.”

Seems Left Higher Athlete Income Obsession Selling Corporate Executives Steel Entertainers Professional Athlete

Author:Thomas Sowell

“All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.”

Ifs Trying Matter Shining Selling Damn Be You Goddess Yourself Short Selling Yourself

Book:Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It

Source: Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It

“This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.”

Guy Selling This Guy Potatoes Brando

Author:Humphrey Bogart

“I go on stage and people like what I look like; as soon as I'm outside I feel like I have to hide, because people laugh at me, because of the way I look. Now, I use this look, it works for me, I even exaggerate it. I used to hide my large forehead, but now I'm selling it.”

People Way Feels Looks Use Used Laughing Stage Goes On Selling Foreheads

Author:Klaus Nomi

“It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.”

Said Records Nice Selling Composer Items Collectors

Author:Fred Astaire

“It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.”

Men World Art Rich Example Personality Becoming Aim Selling Rich Man

Author:Hermann Goring

“[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.”

Political Politician Selling Buying Norm Arrested Private Sector Political Systems Downfall Bribery Public Sector Buying And Selling

Author:Jesse Ventura

“I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.”

People Knows Looks I Can Use Faces Used Guy Certain Walks Rooms Advantage Tools Selling Advertising My Thoughts

Author:Tom Ford

“When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'”

Want Firsts Young Company Percent Selling Designer Call Me Cringe

Author:Tom Ford

“I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.”

Doe Jobs Rocks Ego Creating Sells Bottom Selling Magazines Not Interested Thorough Ego Trip

Author:Jack Kirby

“I used to play for 200 people and now I'm selling out places that hold 16,000 people. It's a big change, and it's so cool to see people out there screaming the words to songs that I wrote. It just really reassures me that what I'm doing is working, and it really boosts my confidence, as far as on stage as a performer and a writer.”

People Play Bigs Used Song Stage Selling Performers Boost Selling Out Big Changes

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.”

Way Trying Littles Important Soul Bigs Careers Integrity Selling My Soul Filmmaker Not Interested Paychecks Selling Out

Author:Daryl Wein

“ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.”

Support Drug Organization Trade Oil Criminals Selling Funding Isis Ideological Theological Criminality

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly.”

People Thinking Pay Millions Demand Entrepreneur Accomplish Priorities Selling Producers Consumers Buying Relative Signals Subjective Scarcity Buying And Selling Abstaining

Author:Sheldon Richman

“I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.”

Has Beens Dark Rooms College Mom Band My Mom Selling Teenager Shirts Survived Closets T Shirt Silk Screening Homemade Doing Me Dark Room

Author:Steve Aoki

“Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.”

Player Security Selling Networking Storage Incumbents

Author:Marc Andreessen

“You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.”

Want Firsts Humans Ideas Real Values Imagination Human Beings Selling Making Money Manifest Real You Something Real Selling Something

Author:James Altucher

“I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.”

Care Albums Productions Don't Care Selling I Don't Care Mainstream Popularity Contests Popularity Contest

Author:Phil Anselmo

“I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.”

Done Kids School Faces Waiting Animal Party Teacher Magic Painting Hair Tables Paint Selling Clown Highlights Balloons School Teachers Nannies Elmo Pre School

Author:Diora Baird

“Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.”

Needs Mean Soul Values Opportunity Wealth Example Cost Communicate Selling Instant Apples Executives Spelling Bad Apple

Author:Vivek Wadhwa

“The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.”

Firsts Shows Guy Scripts Selling Planes Auditions Airports

Author:Scott Bakula

“Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.”

Shows Song Opportunity Records One Thing Tools Selling

Author:Jason Aldean

“In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.”

Father Careers Talent Majors Stores Selling Agents Managers Chocolate Chips Cookies Detours Chocolate Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies

Author:Shawn Amos

“Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?”

People Trying Looks Kind Guy Certain Amount Hero Sells Wine Shoes Selling Broads Bottles Funny Things Blazers

Author:Joe Bastianich

“I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.”

Thinking Church Selling Buying Cracks

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.”

Wells Said Country Democracy Products Genius Republican Democrat Superiors Selling

Author:Bill Maher

“The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.”

Guy Doubt Corners Selling Certainty Other Guys

Author:Bill Maher

“Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?”

Light Jesus Christ Company South Smell Selling Candle Scent Dakota South Dakota

Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

“My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.”

Knows Firsts Kids Jobs Break Doors Raises Selling Cards Hips Grandmother My Grandmother Replacements Christmas Card

Author:Emo Philips

“Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia.”

Feels Wells Saint Selling These Days Germany Amnesia Guessing Depressants

Author:Emo Philips

“If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.”

Ifs Giving Looks Choices Careers Birth Shoes Painful Selling Giving Birth Porcupines Selling Shoes

Author:Richard Jeni

“People come to this country from all over the world to pursue their dreams of driving a taxi or selling hot dogs or working in a sweatshop.”

People World Country Dream Dog Hot Driving Selling Pursue Taxi Hot Dog Sweatshops

Author:Greg Giraldo

“Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.”

Wells Looks Art Made Together Cutting Ears Resistance Selling Vans

Author:Albert Brooks

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