Warren Buffett Wise Quotes & Sayings

God (mentally on my knees), if I can just get through this night, I'll come to church. On Christmas. Every fifteen years. For the next fifteen years. So once. — K.F. Germaine

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. — Henry David Thoreau

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy. — Daniel S. Loeb

Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end. — Warren Buffett

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters. — Seth Klarman

There is no shame in going out fighting and getting your ass kicked, but there is no honor in not fighting at all. — The Undertaker

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within. — John Wooden

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. — William Henry Channing

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them. — Warren Buffett

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste. — Norbert Wiener

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays. — Bob Balaban

We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two. — E. M. Forster

I want to be taken to a madhouse," said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. "I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came." "Why?" asked the unknown. "Because I want a little sane and wholesome society," answered Turnbull. — G.K. Chesterton

The wise man once said invest young — Warren Buffett

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner. — Lyndon B. Johnson

A half-open window.
Morning-fresh air carries
curious sunlight into a bedroom.
Flecks of dust shimmer yellow-gold.
Four feet, entwined under white sheets.
Joni's Blue, on the player.
Delicate curtains slow-dance
to Sunday's tune.
Laughter.
Talk of: what for breakfast?
Anything. Anything at all. — Nick Miller

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. — Warren Buffett

Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years. — Sheldon L. Glashow