The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry -… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used. — Raymond Rubicam Copy Share Image
It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be… — Jennifer Shahade Copy Share Image
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is always a nice, inexpensive draft beer, but if someone wants something a little more complicated than that, then… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas… — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
