Warren Buffett

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.

Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.

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

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . And since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God . . . then unless the Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Substances, and consequently three distinct Gods.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress’d as those that are full of precious Drugs. They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

I don’t like needing anyone for anything.