Warren Buffett Quotes, Long Ago Quotes, Investing Quotes

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Horse Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dirty Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Gone Quotes

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Passion Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

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Tags : Alan Bradley Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Would Be Quotes

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Believe Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , War Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Mother Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.

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Tags : Abraham Pais Quotes , Science Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Knives Quotes

The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Taoism Quotes

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Pity Quotes

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Errors Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Years Quotes

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Long Ago Quotes , Long Quotes

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Heart Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Long Ago Quotes

I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , War Quotes , Long Ago Quotes