Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless."
Ruthless quotes
Ruthless
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Petrarch
Poet, Scholar
"Ruthless striving, overcomes everything."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community."
Robert Kennedy
Politician
"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
Stephen King
Author
"It's best to be ruthless with the past."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"Be ruthless about protecting writing days."
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"I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been."
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"Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!"
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"Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent."
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