Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.