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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
Warren Buffett
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Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.
Ace Hood
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Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.
Murray Rothbard
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The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.
John Mearsheimer
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I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
Anthony Hopkins
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You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.
Christopher Nolan
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The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.
Murray Rothbard
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You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.
Patton Oswalt
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A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
Brennan Manning
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
Petrarch
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It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.
Jamie Babbit
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Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.
Vladimir Lenin
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet
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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short
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Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.
James C. Collins
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One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
John Berryman
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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
Anthony de Mello
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but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.
John Irving
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I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
Bashar al-Assad
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That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."
Ace Hood
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All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.
Jim Stanford
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Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
Lois Capps
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We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.
Robert Sirico
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We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.
Dan Mathews
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I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
Mike Tyson
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How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.
Hal Porter
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I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
Julian Schnabel
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Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
Paul Davies
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The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.
Yuu Watase
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Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.
Maria Semple
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The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.
Charles M. Blow
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O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate,
you can not thwart
the promptings of my soul.
Hilda Doolittle
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Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.
Scott Simon
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The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
Steven Pressfield
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I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?
John le Carre
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Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
Eric Hoffer
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
Salman Rushdie