Pabrai Investment Quotes & Sayings

Your consciousness will make you conscious of others — Thabiso Monkoe

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. — Robert Graves

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted. — Bill Gates

Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating being on the ground. Especially with the appearance of that red cloud. — Peter F. Hamilton

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously. — Earl Wilson

The basis of all choice in manifestation is Loving Yourself. This is the start and the finish to all good things that you are looking for. — Dee Wallace

There was no way she was going to let it off easy by spending its life knocking up mares. If she couldn't hang around and have sex all day, neither could it. Fair was fair. — K.F. Breene

We should not conclude from this that everything depends on waves of irrational psychology. On the contrary, the state of long-term expectation is often steady, and, even when it is not, the other factors exert their compensating effects. We are merely reminding ourselves that human decisions affecting the future, whether personal or political or economic, cannot depend on strict mathematical expectation, since the basis for making such calculations does not exist; and that it is our innate urge to activity which makes the wheels go round, our rational selves choosing between the alternatives as best we are able, calculating where we can, but often falling back for our motive on whim or sentiment or chance. — John Maynard Keynes

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive. — Sophie Marceau

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special. — Woody Allen

You can't get angry just because you can't control the world as you please. — Cho Kyuhyun

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind. — Charlotte Smith

It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former. — George Washington

There was the period where I wanted to be a therapist, if the acting thing didn't work. That was pretty much it. I don't know why. I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems. — Jennifer Aniston

So Pabrai added the following checkpoint to his list: when analysing a company, stop and confirm that you've asked yourself whether the revenues might be overstated or understated due to boom or bust conditions. — Atul Gawande

To put it bluntly, if you don't have AD/HD, you do things because they are important. If you have AD/HD, you do things because they are interesting. — Jeffrey Freed