"Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like……" — Adam Gopnik
"Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship"
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44 Quotes by Adam Gopnik
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference,…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve,…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and…
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More Forbes Quotes
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money
— Lamar Alexander
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Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run…
— Roy Barnes
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Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the…
— Unknown Author
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I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest…
— Peter Lynch
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Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
— Willie Stargell
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors…
— Bill Gates
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I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should…
— Esther Dyson
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Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade - gigolo - John Forbes Kerry is one of…
— Howie Carr
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You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that…
— Ronald Burkle
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not…
— Robert Orben
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The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent…
— John Sununu
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If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that…
— William E. Conway, Jr.
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