Warren Buffett Quotes

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.