Bruce Berkowitz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.
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We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?
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There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.
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The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.
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When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.
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I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.
-- Bruce Berkowitz
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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.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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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.
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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.
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What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
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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.
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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
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Time is the supreme Law of nature.
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