“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

Trust is like the air we breathe. When it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.