"I have three boxes on my desk:..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.
More by Warren Buffett
“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”
“We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.”
“You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.”
More on Decision Making
“Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.”
“How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.”
“It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members. I mean, you're not going to get total assent.”
More on Simplicity
“The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.”
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”