Warren Buffett Quotes

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

You think the shadow is the substance.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.