Bruce Berkowitz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  • Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  • The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

  • In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  • I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  • What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

  • It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  • The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

  • Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

  • Time is the supreme Law of nature.