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.

Van Morrison

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

Twyla Tharp

The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear; the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible.

William Gurnall

Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

William Gurnall

Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.

William Butler Yeats

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty...

Sarah Palin

Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.

Wil Wheaton

I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused,

Ronald Reagan

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

Wladimir Klitschko

The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.

Winston Churchill

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Winston Churchill

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

Warren Farrell

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

Zadie Smith

To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

Zac Efron

I'd love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn't need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore - but I don't know how I'd do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I'm not telling.

Wade Davis

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

Vladimir Nabokov

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

Yehuda Berg

Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.