I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Lost time is never found again.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Energy begets energy.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.