Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple


Jimmy Buffett

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I've never seen a system as good as Coke has now.
WARREN BUFFETT
Eddie is a very smart guy, but putting Kmart and Sears together is a tough hand.
WARREN BUFFETT
Putting $1,000 in the pockets of 310,000 families with urgent needs is going to provide far more sti...
WARREN BUFFETT
Bill Gates and I kind of cooked it up together. We hope we could get a school program someplace, whe...
WARREN BUFFETT
These costs are now being incurred in amounts that will cause shareholders to earn far less than the...
WARREN BUFFETT
Over the years, our current businesses, in aggregate, should deliver modest growth in operating earn...
WARREN BUFFETT
During 2002 we entered the foreign currency market for the first time in my life, ... In 2003, we en...
WARREN BUFFETT
The market outperformed business for a very long time, and that phenomenon had to end,
WARREN BUFFETT
Putting $1,000 in the pockets of 310,000 families with urgent needs is going to provide far more sti...
WARREN BUFFETT
I personally think it would be better if the NYSE remained as a neutral, not-for-big-profit institut...
WARREN BUFFETT
We felt that the risk profile had changed.
WARREN BUFFETT
I am a bull on sterling versus the U.S. dollar.
WARREN BUFFETT
Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them. In my view, it wil...
WARREN BUFFETT
We quickly realized that Business Wire was a gem of a company.
WARREN BUFFETT
In making this acquisition of Business Wire, we have followed our blueprint of buying profitable com...
WARREN BUFFETT
Our ignorance means we must follow the course prescribed by Pascal in his famous wager about the exi...
WARREN BUFFETT
An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavio...
WARREN BUFFETT
We have three managers at Berkshire who are reasonably young and fully capably of being CEO.
WARREN BUFFETT
Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in t...
WARREN BUFFETT
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circum...
WARREN BUFFETT
I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient.
WARREN BUFFETT
It's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like sa...
WARREN BUFFETT
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It'...
WARREN BUFFETT
If calculus or algebra were required to be a great investor, I'd have to go back to delivering newsp...
WARREN BUFFETT
You've been drafted into a war you didn't start, ... Focus on your customers and lead your people as...
WARREN BUFFETT
There's no question in my mind the number one problem of mankind is the spread of nuclear knowledge,...
WARREN BUFFETT
Berkshire Hathaway will sell you insurance, carpeting or any of our other products in exchange for o...
WARREN BUFFETT
If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
WARREN BUFFETT
Let us do or die.
WARREN BUFFETT
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...
WARREN BUFFETT
Over that time we've been happy with that investment but I've got to tell you I'm happier today. It'...
WARREN BUFFETT
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
WARREN BUFFETT
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely...
WARREN BUFFETT
Just looks. Looks exclusively.
WARREN BUFFETT
Two rules:1. Preserve the principal2. When in doubt see Rule #1
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The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free --...
WARREN BUFFETT
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on...
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