Peter Buffett Quotes

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• We are stronger than we think we are.
  We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it.
  We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

  Peter Buffett

  Thinking, Challenges, Stronger

  Peter Buffett (2010). “Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment”, p.249, Crown Archetype

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• Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing shameful about them. There is, however, something sad and limiting about the fear of making them.

  Peter Buffett

  Drama, Mistake, Imagine

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• Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.

  Peter Buffett

  Hands, Leader, Important

  "The Charitable-Industrial Complex" by Peter Buffett, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2013.

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• It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

  Peter Buffett

  Family, House, Matter

  Peter Buffett (2010). “Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment”, p.12, Crown Archetype

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• There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

  Peter Buffett

  Beautiful, Hurt, Yesterday

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

  Peter Buffett

  Drinking, Gambling, Giving

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• Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive.

  Peter Buffett

  Thinking, Order, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

  Peter Buffett

  Fall, Risk, Way

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• What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

  Peter Buffett

  Imagination, Mind, Problem

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• I do think men fear female intuition.

  Peter Buffett

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.

  Peter Buffett

  Technology, Men, Trying

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster.

  Peter Buffett

  Faster, Wells, Meetings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.

  Peter Buffett

  Past, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

  Peter Buffett

  Kindness, Buddhism, Greed

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We have to be in abundance and recognize that we're just a small piece of this big thing that's moving along the biosphere, earth, evolution and consciousness and we'd better humble ourselves and start loving each other.

  Peter Buffett

  Moving, Humble, Pieces

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

  Peter Buffett

  Exercise, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.

  Peter Buffett

  Trying, Systemic Change, Conditions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

  Peter Buffett

  Thinking, Compassion, Understanding

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

  Peter Buffett

  Moving, Hard Work, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

  Peter Buffett

  Sides, Individual, Feminine

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My gut sense is there's something necessary going on and if I'm too fearful or angry, I feel like I'm feeding it.

  Peter Buffett

  Feeding, Feels, Guts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

  Peter Buffett

  Thinking, Different, Matter

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Start from the bottom up.

  Peter Buffett

  Bottom

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing.

  Peter Buffett

  Seems

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

  Peter Buffett

  Community, Scales, Dependent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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