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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. Migratory cancer cells are amoebic formations. They are produced from disintegrating tissue and thus demonstrate the law of tension and charge in its purest form - as does the orgastic convulsion. Now money is a must - cancer the main issue - in every respect, even political. It was a staggering experience. My intuition is good. I depend on it. Was absolutely driven to buy a microscope. The sight of the cancer cells was exactly as I had previously imagined it, had almost physically felt it would be. Cancer is an autoinfection of the body, of an organ. And researchers have no idea of what, hor, or where!!
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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Born of necessity, the little fellow [Mickey Mouse] literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song, loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe. O liquid and free and tender! O wild and loose to my soul—O wondrous singer! You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,) yet the lilac with mastering odor holds me.
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The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers, borne by the channel of a green stream, rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains on a journey of less than thirty miles... Rapids hum over heaped rocks; but where light grows dim in the thick pines, the surface of an inlet sways with nut-horns and weeds are lush along the banks… Down in my heart I have always been as pure as this limpid water is... Oh, to remain on a broad flat rock and to cast a fishing-line forever!
On An Eclipse Of The Moon - Struggling, and faint, and fainter didst thou wane, O Moon! and round thee all thy starry train came forth to help thee, with half-open eyes, and trembled every one with still surprise, that the black Spectre should have dared assail their beauteous queen and seize her sacred veil.
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Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
I personally would increase the taxable base above the present ninety thousand. I pay very, very little in the way of social security taxes because I make a lot more than ninety thousand and the people in my office pay the full tax.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Over that time we've been happy with that investment but I've got to tell you I'm happier today. It's a dream deal.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that. “I’m paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because...” If you can’t answer that question, you shouldn’t buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you’ll make a lot of money.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.
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Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as "the possibility of loss or injury."
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Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The stock market serves as a relocation center, at which money is moved from the active, to the patient.
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