Quotes about long
long microsoft done
Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better. Charlie Munger
long ruins enough
We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
long missing unhappy
Any time anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you adopt "Munger's Rule". However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead-and you will miss a lot of unhappy experiences.
long slim chance
Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.
long people curiosity
If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.
long attention succeed
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
long virtue worst
Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue Charles Saatchi
long listening opera
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment. Beverly Sills
long doe broadway
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me! Betty White
long-ago years half
Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
long kind beats
Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.
long joy too-late
I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know. Bernhard Schlink
long acting pay
I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z. Bernie Mac
long-ago soldier needs
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it. Edward Hoagland
long entering noble
And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition. Edward Hirsch
long empires inquiring
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. Edward Gibbon
long brain teeth
The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. Edith Widder
long people half
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. Edith Wharton
long heaven buried
Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
long waiting president
What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait? David Remnick
long sheets my-own
The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own. David Hewson
long conviction left
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. David Brainerd
long done life-is
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
long decision way
You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic. Ben Wheatley
long trying relax
Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time. Benedict Cumberbatch
long exotic world
I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there[Hollywood]. Audrey Tautou
long people want
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. Audre Lorde
long suffering trying
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences. Arthur Rimbaud
long poet senses
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
long done architecture
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Arne Jacobsen
long literature world
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place. Arnold Bennett
long people comfort
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat. Antony Starr
long liberty use
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Frederic Bastiat