Warren Buffett Quotes

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

The more force used, the less effective it is.

The bigger the hat, the smaller the property.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

When you send out real love, real love will return to you.

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.