Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.
When we help one another, everybody wins.
There is no time like the present...
Bullying is not okay. Period.
Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it’s you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
Hard work and honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.
You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.
It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?
If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you’ll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.
People don’t plan to fail. They fail to plan.
If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
It doesn’t cost anything to be nice to people.