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"Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from."
"Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later."
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone."
"If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it."
"I don't invest in what I don't understand. And I don't want to understand Facebook."
"We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our CEOs [of the Berkshireoperating subsidiaries], but we promised them they could spend 100% of their time on their business. We place no impediments on them running their businesses. Many have expressed to me how happy they are that they don't have to spend 25% of time on activities they didn't like."
"I don't want to understand Facebook."
"We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose, and that we are not going to end here, we are going to proceed somewhere else, and also that we didn't begin here, that we began somewhere else and all that living, all that elaborate account of our presence seems to be quite basic to our nature and so this is what literacy taps into."
"The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way."
"Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world."
"I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know."
"If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk"
"Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it."
"When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it."
"I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!"
"I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock."
"I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you."
"I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London."
"Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity."
"Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be."
