Warren Buffett

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.

The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.