Quote

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

Warren Buffett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
Business
Simplicity
School
Rewards
Buffets
Economics
Reward
Management
Investing
Behavior
Complexes
Simple
Effective
War
Schools
Difficult
Complex

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: Every putt makes someone happy.
Warren Buffett
Image
What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.
Warren Buffett
Image
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.
Warren Buffett
Image
I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.
Warren Buffett
Image
Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.
Warren Buffett
Image
Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.
Warren Buffett
Image
Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.
Warren Buffett
Image
Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.
Warren Buffett
Image
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Warren Buffett
Image
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
Warren Buffett
Image
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.
Warren Buffett
Image
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster they tell you nothing about the future.
Warren Buffett
Image
Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.
Warren Buffett
Image
The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.
Warren Buffett
Image
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
Warren Buffett
Image
The secret to happiness is having low expectations.
Warren Buffett
Image
Investing is simple, but not easy.
Warren Buffett
Image
Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory
Warren Buffett
Image
I'll bring my tax returns you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.
Warren Buffett
Image
House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.
Warren Buffett