106 Buffet Quotes

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Famous Buffet Quotes

The meal eaten at a tradesman's restaurant is expensive. — Turkish Proverbs

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch. — Homer

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. - Peter De Vries

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish. — Clement Freud

Room service? Send up a larger room. - Groucho Marx

Room service? Send up a larger room. — Groucho Marx

I love brunch because it's breakfast and lunch why not. — Lorena Garcia

Cheeseburger in paradise! — Jimmy Buffett

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings. — Jim Gaffigan

If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals. — Cat Cora

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health. — Sally Schneider

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. — Paul Bocuse

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. — Warner LeRoy

Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream. — Bridget Hall

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus

Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking. — Bill Burr

Short Buffet Quotes

  • Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. — Warren Buffett
  • If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need. — Warren Buffett
  • No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett
  • You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett
  • Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior. — Warren Buffett
  • In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
  • Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. — Mae West
  • Very successful people say no to almost everything. — Warren Buffett
  • Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. — Warren Buffett
  • When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits. — Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett Quotes

Some of the greatest investors of our time—people like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger—are absolute geniuses but cannot wrap their minds around cryptocurrencies. — Naval Ravikant

I learned from great investors like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch that you have to look at stocks not based on world events or economic data but almost in spite of them. — Francois Rochon

Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not buy consumer goods companies because I do not understand them. — Chamath Palihapitiya

If the discernment of value could be reduced to an algorithm and taught, then everybody would be Warren Buffett. — Howard Marks

This is how Warren Buffett, one of the most successful people in the business world, describes his typical day: ‘I just sit in my office and read all day.’ — Gautam Baid

The best defense against loss is thorough, insightful analysis and insistence on what Warren Buffett calls ‘margin for error.’ — Howard S. Marks

I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Even though there are some people who do very well, like Marc Rich-who plainly has never had any decent ethics, or seldom anyway. But in the end, Warren Buffett has done better than Marc Rich-in money-not just in reputation. — Charlie Munger

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more. — Ed Asner

Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process. — Mohnish Pabrai

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote. — Charlie Munger

Food Buffet Quotes

I remember being in India one time where I saw people who were struggling to find food at the bottom of a trash can, and then I walked into my hotel and saw people arguing over how the quality of food at the buffet wasn't good enough. — Jay Shetty

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

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. — Woody Allen

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it. — Steven Wright

Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball? — Marcel Boulestin

I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets. — Sayings

Warren Buffet Quotes

When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something. — David Bach

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. — Warren Buffett

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done. — Brian Tracy

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

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it. — LeBron James

I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money. — David Rubenstein

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. — Charlie Munger

The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems. — Jeremy Grantham

I believe that the mutual fund industry's biggest shortcoming is too much focus on the momentary price of a stock - an illusion - and too little focus on the intrinsic value of the corporation - the ultimate reality. I'm comforted by the fact that Warren Buffett feels the same way. — John C. Bogle

[Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things. — Bill Gates

Buffett Quotes

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. — Warren Buffett

I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out. — Kid Rock

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments. — Roger Lowenstein

Sitting. Reading. Thinking. Buffett credits many of his successful decisions to his incredible reading habit. — Gautam Baid

Buffett’s secret to success is his intense focus, instead of doing more, he does less. — Gautam Baid

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned. — Seth Klarman

If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago. — Charlie Munger

As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to panic is still a decision. — Seth Klarman

I think the foundation at Berkshire [Buffett's stake in Berkshirewill pass to the Buffett Foundation upon his death] will be a plus because there will be a continuation of the culture. We'd still take in fine businesses run by people who love them. — Charlie Munger

I think Buffett is a better investor than me because he has a better eye toward what makes a great business. And when I find a great business I'm happy to buy it and hold it. Most businesses don't look so great to me. — Seth Klarman

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More Buffet Quotes

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. — Warren Buffett

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. — Warren Buffett

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. — Warren Buffett

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. — Warren Buffett

All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest. — William Shakespeare

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

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor. — Warren Buffett

There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over text. In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree. — Greg Behrendt

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like. — Warren Buffett

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world? — Peter Abelard

Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws. — Claude McKay

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. — Warren Buffett

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. — Warren Buffett

I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh. — Heber C. Kimball

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing. — Warren Buffett

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

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing. — Johnny Unitas

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

If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit. — Mark Steyn

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

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. — Warren Buffett

My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti. — Justin Bieber

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. — Warren Buffett

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely. — Warren Buffett

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. — Warren Buffett

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. — Warren Buffett

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