Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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.
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.