"I think people - what people want..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.
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“We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.”
“Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.”
“When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.”
More on Economy
“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”
“We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.”
“Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.”
More on Human Nature
“The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.”
“Appetite for food and sex is nature.”
“Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.”