Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and apply them to it.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.