Warren Buffett Quotes

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

You never know what's going to happen throughout the course of a season.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Life is full of surprises.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.