Warren Buffett on Human Nature
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Warren Buffett, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Warren Buffett, entry #16597: "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
Attributed to Warren Buffett, entry #115030: "Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition."
6 Quotes by Warren Buffett on Human Nature
"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
"Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition."
"People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional."
"You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be O.K."
"he idea of buying dollar bills for 40 cents takes immediately with people or it doesn't take at all. It's like an inoculation. ...It doesn't seem to be a matter of I.Q. or academic training. It's instant recognition, or it's nothing."
"The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent."