Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map."
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Anomalies
45 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Emma Thompson
Actress, Screenwriter, Author
"We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map. You may find local companies that have nothing wrong with them at all. A company that I found, Western Insurance Securities, was trading for $3/share when it was earning $20/share!! I tried to buy up as much of it as possible. No one will tell you about these businesses. You have to find them."
James Brown
Singer, Musician
"We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself."
Michael J. Silverstein
Businessman, Author
"Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on."
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"One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you."
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"A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless."
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"As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy."
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"There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier."
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"The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her."
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"Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume."
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