Cookie Greenspan Quotes & Sayings

We select such investments on a long-term basis, weighing the same factors as would be involved in the purchase of 100% of an operating business: (1) favorable long-term economic characteristics; (2) competent and honest management; (3) purchase price attractive when measured against the yardstick of value to a private owner; and (4) an industry with which we are familiar and whose long-term business characteristics we feel competent to judge. — Warren Buffett

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. — Richard Peck

The cookie-verse is infinite — Dorie Greenspan

The more you smile, the more reasons you will find to smile. — Debasish Mridha

So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook career. You feel so blessed to have been able to compete this long. — Cal Ripken Jr.

People don't want to know the truth. — Katherine Jackson

But even democracies like ours are rife with corruption. The founding fathers had the right idea. They never envisioned professional politicians. They wanted citizen legislators, leaving their farms for a few years to serve their fellow man. A civic responsibility like jury duty. But under our current system, you almost have to be a megalomaniac to have interest in entering the sewer that is politics. And success in this realm requires that backstabbing, shamelessness, lying, and manipulation become an art form. — Douglas E. Richards

We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water. — Desmond Tutu

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am. — Ellen Greene

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. — G. Gordon Liddy