Warren Buffett Quotes

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.

I know what I can do and what I can't.

Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.

Just do what you do best.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

I know a star when I see one.

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me.

I'm fortunate to be a player who can do a lot of things well. Not everything perfectly, but several things well.

I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.

I know what I can do and what I can deliver and there's not many people who can do what I can do.

I know my strengths. I know what I'm good at.

I don't do things that I'm not good at.

Normally, I know what I'm doing.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

I'm not good at very many things. The stuff I'm good at tends to be the stuff that people know me for.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.