Warren Buffett Quotes

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

As Secretary of Defense I have to be cautious and prudent.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around." I feel so wanted. Thanks.

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

Forethought spares afterthought.

You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.