Buffets Quotes

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

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.

Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

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.

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

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

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

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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 simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

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

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.

The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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

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.

But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed.

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

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.

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

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.

The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.