I don't look to jump over 7-foot bar... by Warren Buffett | We Heart Quotes

Philanthropist billionaire Investor Stocks Berkshire Hathaway

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

- Warren Buffett

Other quotes by Warren Buffett

It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

- Warren Buffett

End People

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

- Warren Buffett

Favorite

Our favorite holding period is forever.

- Warren Buffett

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

- Warren Buffett

Will

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

- Warren Buffett

Life

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

- Warren Buffett

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