Buffets Quotes

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.