Berkshireis Quotes & Sayings

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down. — Alexandra Kerry

I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were. — Emily Giffin

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level. — David Baldacci

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside. — Nora Roberts

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business. — Charlie Munger

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power. — Charlie Munger

What if that child survived, and the lineage continues to this day, meaning the ancestors of Christ are walking among us? — Larry Brooks

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below — Barbara Taylor Bradford

If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours — James Jones

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant. — Albert Einstein

Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the
wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for
the wrong reason may fail to satisfy the motive behind it and
thus may block the writer, as I've said; but there is no wrong
motive for writing fiction. At least in some instances, good
fiction has come from the writer's wish to be loved, his wish
to take revenge, his wish to work out his psychological woes,
his wish for money, and so on. No motive is too low for art;
finally it's the art, not the motive, that we judge. — John Gardner

Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. — Jeanette Winterson

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino. — Mads Mikkelsen

I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do. — James Arness

I used to think God wouldn't talk to me, but now I know I'm just selective with what I choose to hear. — Bob Goff

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it. — Charlie Munger