Howard Graham Buffett Quotes

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anything simple always interests me.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.