“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”
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Warren Buffett146
American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930Related quotes
“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher
“Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Variant: Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
Source: Tears and Saints (1937)
“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!”
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) German writer
On Pain (1934)
“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
François Mitterrand book Le Coup d'État permanent
[…] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.
Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part III
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You, written by Bryan Adams, Mutt Lange, and Michael Kamen
Song lyrics, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991)
“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter