“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

— Warren Buffett

As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128

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American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930

Taubie Kushlick (1910–1991) South African actor and director

Sunday Times interview (1980s)

“At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”

David Ogilvy (1911–1999) Advertising executive

Source: Rolls-Royce print ad, 1958. This is sometimes referred to as the most famous headline in advertising history.

“We will not take money in taxes from those who work hard and pay it out to those who don't. We are trying to roll back the tide of Socialism. We must get ‘stuck in’ and sort out our problems in our traditional British way instead of asking the Government to intervene every time. Intervening means taking from people who work jolly hard and just manage to live within their means and make a profit, money in extra tax to pay for those who don't.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Speech to Finchley Conservatives ("We are trying to roll back the tide of Socialism") (26 January 1980) https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104297
First term as Prime Minister

“Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Skin in the Game

Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 23

“Trump would roll back the tough rules that we have imposed on the Financial Industry. I’ll do the opposite – I think we should strengthen those rules so that Wall Street can never wreck Main Street again.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016)

“Why am I taking seduction advice from a man whose idea of foreplay is to slam coins on the table and shout: 'Who wants to ride the big horse?'""Because he knows best, Tinker.”

David Gemmell book The Swords of Night and Day

Source: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 6

“If the auto industry advanced as rapidly as the semiconductor industry, a Rolls Royce would get half a million miles per gallon, and it would be cheaper to throw it away than to park it.”

Gordon Moore (1929) American businessman, co-founder of Intel and author of the eponym law

Moore's Law | ZEISS International http://www.zeiss.com/semiconductor-manufacturing-technology/en_de/products-solutions/lithography-optics/about-optical-lithography/moore_s-law.html (quoting an unidentified statement pertaining to Moore's Law.)

“I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“I am like a Rolls Royce which can run without an engine, just on reputation.”

Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality

From interview with Malavika Sangghvi

“The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring’s bombing planes.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Part II : Shopkeepers At War, § II
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

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