Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whole value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

Warren Buffett

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

Warren Buffett

I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.

Warren Buffett

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

Wayne Dyer

You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.

William Billings

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

Samuel Goldwyn

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

Ryan Seacrest

What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

Joshua Waitzkin

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

Kofi Annan

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

Kenneth Branagh

Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.

Keith Jarrett

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

Ralph Fiennes

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

Les Brown

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

Les Brown

The key to success is discovering your innate power and using it daily.

Lee Greenwood

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

Laura Bush

Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

Temple Grandin

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

Scott Herman

Having a CORE main focus is the key to being able to stay determined. Most people only set small goals and when they accomplish them... it's hard to stay on track as they are not trying to achieve anything else.

Sheldon Adelson

The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

Shelley Duvall

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

Shari Arison

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

Marco Rubio

Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated through air strikes. Air strikes are a key component of defeating them, but they must be defeated on the ground by a ground force. And that ground force must be primarily made up of Sunni Arabs themselves, Sunni Arabs that reject them ideologically and confront them militarily.

Marco Rubio

For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.

Sam Walter Foss

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

Samantha Barks

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

Sam Walton

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Sam Walton

High expectations is the key to everything.

Sam Altman

Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

Robert Hughes

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

Individuality' is the key to success.