Warren Buffett
American investor and businessman, born 1930
54 quotes.
Quotes by Warren Buffett
- After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
- Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.
- An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.
- Criticize by category, praise by name.
- Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
- Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
- Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.
- I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.
- I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
- If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
- If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
- Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.
- Investing in yourself is the most important investment you will ever make in your life... There's no financial investment that will ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what is going to really provide economic freedom... it's those skill sets that really make that happen.
- It isn’t so much having a lot of brilliant decisions, it’s just not having some terrible ones.
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.
- It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
- It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
- Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.
- Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
- Look for integrity, intelligence and energy.
- Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.
- More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions.
- Never depend on a single income. Make an investment to create a second source.
- Never risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.
- No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
- Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
- Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
- Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
- The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.
- The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.
- The key to success is emotional stability.
- The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
- The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
- The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
- The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.