Warren Buffett Quotes

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

Were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

Negativity is basically laziness.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Prosperity engenders sloth.