Quotes about thin
thinking proud ethics
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Charlie Munger
thinking vengeance
I don't think vengeance is much good. Charlie Munger
thinking simplicity brain
Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do. Charlie Munger
thinking things-in-life iron
I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life Charlie Munger
thinking people trying
A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust. Charlie Munger
thinking pieces paper
Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper. Charlie Munger
thinking practice fundamentals
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically. Charlie Munger
thinking people too-much
People calculate too much and think too little. Charlie Munger
thinking odds goes-on
The model I like to sort of simplify the notion of what goes on in a market for common stocks is the pari-mutuel system at the racetrack. If you stop to think about it, a pari-mutuel system is a market. Everybody goes there and bets and the odds change based on what's bet. That's what happens in the stock market. Charlie Munger
thinking bankers heroin
I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts. Charlie Munger
thinking victimization persons
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating. Charlie Munger
thinking goal feelings
I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists. Charles Roven
thinking wind people
People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down. Charles Roven
thinking here-i-am space
The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny. Charles Simic
thinking people world
I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are. Charles Rangel
thinking white supremacy
Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all. Charles Rangel
thinking gun tipping
I think we could be at a tipping point Charles Schumer
thinking issues progress
I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics. Charles Schumer
thinking wells
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. Charles Schumer
thinking world way
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. Charles Schumer
thinking people brain
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think. Charles Sanders Peirce
thinking lakes giving
I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards. Charles Sanders Peirce
thinking conscious
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong. Charles Sanders Peirce
thinking air arrows
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. Charles Mackay
thinking looks ifs
If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves. Charles Mingus
thinking people sample
Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives. Charles M. Schwab
thinking way firsts
I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you. Charles Manson
thinking years law
I didn't tie anybody up. And I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I think the law says you can only keep me seventeen or eighteen years if I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I was never on the crime scenes. I didn't kill nobody, I didn't tell nobody to get killed. I didn't get no trial, but we don't wanna hear that- don't wanna mix anything up with the truth. Charles Manson
thinking serial-killer mouths
If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing... what do you think's gonna happen when i get out of here? Charles Manson
thinking reflection taught
You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught. Charles Manson
thinking-of-you sweetheart think-of-me
Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you. Charles M. Schulz
thinking woods matter
No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown... Charles M. Schulz
thinking opposites feelings
I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions! Charles M. Schulz