Warren Buffett Quotes

I don't deal with hypotheticals.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Better to face the bear than run from it.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.

My impression of Donald Trump, just having been around him. I don't think Trump needs a lot of advisers. I don't think Trump's sitting up there not knowing what he thinks, not knowing what he thinks is best. I don't think that as these things come and go, he runs around, "What do you think I should do?" I think what happens is he makes up his mind he wants to do something and then asks people how's the best way to make it happen. He goes and talks to the military.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

Evidence exhausts the truth.

A lot of military people just take orders, and there is a place for that. But SEALs think for themselves from day one. That way, when something happens - a kid runs out of a room, a woman is held as a human shield - they can make those decisions on the fly. We always say: "Improvise, adapt and overcome."

Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.