Quotes about years
years people facts
All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things. Robyn
years drs daleks
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was. Robyn Hitchcock
years two purpose
At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present. Roberto Goizueta
years fifteen matter
Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality. Robertson Davies
years history curiosity
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. Robert Staughton Lynd
years radio grew
I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio. Robert Stack
years wildfires
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
years mind literature
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. Sarah Orne Jewett
years remember retiring
I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! Vinnie Vincent
years way lasts
I'm way different than I was last year. You learn something new every year. I learned a whole lot from last season and a whole lot from this season. I'm still learning. Vince Young
years cities giving
I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. You know why? I felt like I was back in LA again. Four or five years ago, when I had a car and I had been out of the city I wouldn't feel I was back until I got in the car, you know. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own. Vincent Kartheiser
years done research
After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week. William Henry Bragg
years goofy my-sister
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old. Will Smith
years clothes jerusalem
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old. Warren Ellis
years want lasts
I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.
years ideas oil
Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that. Warren Beatty
years shy gains
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. Warren Buffett
years waste investment
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
years games two
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.
years investing information
With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.
years opinion interest
We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.
years investment minutes
It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.
years decision lasts
It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.
years three partners
I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".
years buffets investing
I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.
years minutes feels
If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
years two long
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.
years mentor cost
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
years tables six
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
years today return
The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.
years march faster
Comrade life, let us march faster, March faster through what's left of the five-year plan. Vladimir Mayakovsky
years design wish
I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time. Vivienne Westwood
years people looks
When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.