It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.
There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center
Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.
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.
You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.
You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
THE FACT THAT MY DAD IS A PREACHER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T AGREE WITH SOME OF MY MATERIAL BUT THEN AGAIN THERE'S NO SIGN ON MY COMEDY EVENT THAT SAYS "REVIVAL HERE TONIGHT". IM SURE GOD HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN GO TO MY 8 OCLOCK OMAHA SHOW. THE SHOW IS THE SHOW AND CHURCH IS CHURCH.
To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.
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.
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