#buffet

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#free #religion #religion

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#music #song #songwriting #music

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. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cleaning #his #income #lady #pays

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. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#buffet #correct #dessert #did #expect

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. ↗

— LeBron James

#back #buffet #feeling #follow #go

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#habits #hare #inspirational-life #reading #think

Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American. ↗

— Roger Lowenstein

#business #capitalism #capitalist #character #warren-buffett

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments. ↗

— Roger Lowenstein

#money #philosophy #warren-buffett #change