Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes."
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Trumpets
40 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Keats
Poet
"The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide."
Miles Davis
Musician
"You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from."
Ray Stevens
Singer-Songwriter
"I'm a terrible trumpet player..."
Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles."
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"With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo."
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"Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself."
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"Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet"
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"...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples."
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"Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it."
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"The trumpet is forceful."
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"I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since."
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