Life Quotes

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'

Warren Beatty

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Warren Bennis

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren Bennis

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Warren Bennis

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Warren Bennis

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Warren Bennis

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Warren Bennis

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Warren Bennis

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Warren Bennis

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

Warren Bennis

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

Warren Buffett

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Warren Buffett

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Warren Buffett

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Warren Buffett

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

Warren Buffett