Buffets Quotes - Page 5

• I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Reading

  "This Is Warren Buffett's Best Investment Advice" by Chris Winfield, time.com. July 23, 2015.

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• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Tables

  "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha' Businessweek". July 5, 1999.

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• It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

  Warren Buffett

  Motivational, Investing, Results

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• Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Rationality, Effortless

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Change, Wise

  "Now super-rich face a backlash as credit crunch hits home in America" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Long, Generosity

  "My Philanthropic Pledge" at the The Giving Pledge, 2010.

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• A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

  Warren Buffett

  Children, Kids, Investing

  "Buffett to give away billions". www.cnn.com. June 26, 2006.

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• Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Investing, Attractive

  "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist". Book by Roger Lowenstein, 1995.

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• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  Warren Buffett

  Men, Games, Risk

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• If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

  Warren Buffett

  Half, Hours, Stills

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• Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Ignorance, Investing

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• Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Investing, Concentrating

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• In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Errors, Skills

  1997 Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 1998.

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• Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Helping, Clean, Plates

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• It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

  Donna Dixon

  Thinking, Needs, Sometimes

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• I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Trying, Dessert, Made

  "The Month of Elul as Opportunity: Monica, Eve, and Repentance" by Levi Ben-Shmuel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

  Mark Twain

  Happens

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• Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Is, Limitless, Banquets

  "Maya Angelou's poem in praise of Hillary" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2008.

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• We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

  Barton Seaver

  Ocean, Technology, Friendly

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• The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

  Lester Beall

  Revision, Clients, Graphic Design

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• An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.

  Lee Clow

  Should, Appetizers, Ads

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• I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

  Steven Wright

  Kindness, Food, Moving

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• Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.

  Gena Showalter

  Night, Years, Vintage

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• The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Fire

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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