Reportable Quotes

#1. Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

Warren Buffett

#2. Death
some form of termination
is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#3. Teacher: Tell me a way to prevent a disease caused by biting insects. Student: Don't get bitten by them! ***

Various

#4. I think that if I discovered I had cancer I would immediately say the word, "Phew."
Phew.

Sam Pink

#5. it seemed he had to be talking every waking minute as a means of holding his own fears in balance.

Larry McMurtry

#6. Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong.

John Steinbeck

#7. Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy

Robert Half

#8. I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn't do one particle of good.

Paul Henderson

#9. When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this guy remind you of someone? What does the room feel like? Notice smells, voice inflection, neighborhoods you pass through. Be a cinematographer.

Gene Weingarten

#10. A few seconds of silence lapse, and I knew Carter was waiting for me to mention the huge "I'm pregnant" elephant in the room. Fuck that elephant! he can just sit there in the corner eating peanuts and shitting on the tile while giving me looks of disgust.

Tara Sivec

#11. The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much murder comes as there is in certain parts of Islam.

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#12. I think, therefore I am Confused.

Anonymous

#13. As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave

Kami Garcia

#14. Movement means freedom. That's what life's all about.

Collette West