Quote

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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
Potential
Communicate
Across
Talk
Ideas
Giving
People

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
Warren Buffett
Image
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
Warren Buffett
Image
I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.
Warren Buffett
Image
We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.
Warren Buffett
Image
For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
Warren Buffett
Image
I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.
Warren Buffett
Image
The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.
Warren Buffett
Image
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
Warren Buffett
Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
Warren Buffett
Image
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.
Warren Buffett
Image
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett
Image
You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.
Warren Buffett
Image
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
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
Turnarounds seldom turn.
Warren Buffett
Image
I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.
Warren Buffett
Image
You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes
Warren Buffett
Image
It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.
Warren Buffett
Image
My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.
Warren Buffett