David Tepper Quotes

#1. I could buy an island. I could buy a private jet - but I have NetJets.

David Tepper

#2. The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself

Kelly Braffet

#3. You should try things on, see if they fit you. If they don't, it's not failure. It's a choice. But always let yourself have a choice, let yourself have possibilities.

Kim Culbertson

#4. I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

David Tepper

#5. Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Amy Tan

#6. It's may we live as long as we want, and never want as long as we live,

M.R. Carey

#7. This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.

Jerry Brown

#8. I am the animal at the head of the pack. ... I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

David Tepper

#9. GM will do what's best for GM, and Delphi should do what's good for them.

David Tepper

#10. I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

David Tepper

#11. I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

Jasper Fforde

#12. I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.

David Tepper

#13. When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

Tana French

#14. I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.

David Tepper

#15. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

David Tepper

#16. We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

Indira Gandhi

#17. History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

George R R Martin

#18. It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.

Erica Leerhsen

#19. It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.

David Tepper

#20. There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

David Tepper

#21. Science tells us the more intelligent a person is, the less conservative and more liberal they become. ... which doesn't say anything good about violent, hate-mongering conservatives.

Christina Engela

#22. From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.

Sherry Turkle

#23. When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

Benjamin Franklin

#24. Move in time with life; be in perfect accord with its changing music

Osho