Roger Lowenstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Love You #People #Interesting
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present.
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Home #Past #Common Sense
Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Character #Discipline #Genius
Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such as Coca-Cola took a wisdom forged by years of experience; even then, there was a highly subjective element. A Berkshire stockholder once complained that there were no more franchises like Coca-Cola left. Munger tartly rebuked him. 'Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Simple #Years #Two
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Hero #Age #Giants
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Wall #Character #Thinking
In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Blow #Russia #Years
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-- Roger Lowenstein

#Meaningful #Men #Nails

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, thereâ€™s nothing better than that.
I donâ€™t want to lose you. Iâ€™m in love with you Blaire. Iâ€™ve never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I canâ€™t imagine my world now without you in it.
I love you. I'll never leave you and I swear to you sweetheart that you will never be alone.
I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Roger Lowenstein famous quotes

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