Buffets Quotes

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.

Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

The only thing they recognize is a buffet

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.