Quotes by Average perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes. Barack Obama mother average museums If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously. Barack Obama crime average facts I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are. Barack Obama religious average thinking I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up. Barbara Corcoran media average past The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. Barbara Kingsolver vacation animal average A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. Barbara Kingsolver mother average men Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns. Barry Ritholtz zero class average Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor. Beatrice Lillie common-sense self average Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person. Beatrice M. Hinkle artist average men In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't. Beau Willimon leader average thinking Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer. Ben Bagdikian ukulele passion average I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war. Ben Barnes uncles average war I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini. Ben Folds vintage average people The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing Ben Hogan problem golf average We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better. Ben Silbermann use trying average We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better. Ben Silbermann pinterest average thinking The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. Ben Stein numbers average years There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior. Benjamin Carson normal brain average Little minds think and talk about people. Benjamin Franklin average ideas thinking The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average. Benjamin Graham investing sound average «1234567891011»
