The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
A river without banks is a large puddle.
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.
Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.
Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.
As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.