"As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter."

Source : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

Howard Warren Buffett

#Crazy Quotes #Mean Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.”
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”
“A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.”
“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.69, Broadway Books
“I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.”
“Exploitation is an abuse of power, an act of domination driven by basic insecurity. I think all hierarchies create opportunities for that. Donald Trump is an extreme illustration of an otherwise normal tendency. Institutions are supposed to have safeguards to prevent or mitigate the tendency. Instead they often become vehicles for abuse.”
“It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have”
“The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me,”

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