"I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots."

Source : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

Howard Warren Buffett

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Greed Quotes

“No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.”
“Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets,”
“Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.”

Source : 1917 'Song of Honour'.
“Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”
“I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.”

Source : "The invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, 1999.
“The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.”

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