Howard Warren Buffett Quotes

Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

I trust the people.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

I don't give my people's money to those I think are going to lose, so you have to convince me you're going to win.

Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.

People have confidence in me.

I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

The people who say,"What guarantee do I have?" I walk away. I'll get you later.

When you are insecure, it turns people off. To spend money, people have to give away a part of their security. When they make the transfer of money to you, they have to feel solid; they have to feel they are getting something that will make them more, because they are paying out and becoming less right now. If you are solid and contained and secure, it helps them feel solid, so they transfer their cash more readily.

I have to be able to trust you with my life. Do you understand?

Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.

He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.

I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

The reason Trust is requested is because the person seeking Trust realizes that Trust is the key to Yes.

In what I do for a living, trust and confidence are key. Inevitably, you can't make brave choices and do your best work, if you don't have those, because it's such a subjective art form, and you don't have eyes on yourself.

Confidence is not lodged in people's brains, it comes from the support system that surrounds them. Let's not confuse confidence overall with just self-confidence. Self-confidence is only one part of confidence. People also need confidence in others - their colleagues and leaders - that they can count on them to do the right thing and not to let them down.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.

Reliability is the precondition for trust.

That's the main thing you have to have... trust.

I just wanted to be sure of you.