Omaha Quotes

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Motivational, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Sleep, Night

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

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• Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Talking, Quality

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

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• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Appreciation

  Goodness Had Nothing to DoWith It ch. 21 (1959)

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Time, Money

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, War, Generosity

  "7 insightful investing quotes from Warren Buffett", vintagevalueinvesting.com. September 28, 2017.

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• Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

  Joan Rivers

  Travel, Home, Littles

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• If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.

  Saul

  Lucky, Months, Cases

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• Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Winning, College

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
  You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Thinking, Mind

  "BRK Annual Meeting 2007 Tilson Notes". Buffett FAQ, buffettfaq.com. 2007.

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• Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.

  Shane Smith

  Games

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• Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Jobs, Wall

  Charles Bukowski, “Pull A String, A Puppet Moves”

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• You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Parks, Gates

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.562, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

  Lawrence Klein

  School, Training, Language

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• During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Beach, Wall, Military

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• If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.

  Immortal Technique

  Independent, Thinking, America

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

  Tony Bennett

  Funny, Opportunity, Cities

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• I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

  Lawrence Klein

  Sister, Brother, Nebraska

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• The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

  Buffalo Bill

  Summer, Country, Home

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach.

  Tom Hanks

  Beach, Moon, People

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• You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Trying, Salary

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2483, GENERAL PRESS

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• The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Niece, Nephew, Foundation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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