Warren Buffett Quotes

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

It is very important what not to do.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

The right decisions come from the right focus. You’ll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. Perhaps this is why President Brigham Young once said that if he could do but one thing to bless the Saints, he believed it would be to give them eyes with which to see things as they are.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.