Warren Buffett
American investor and businessman, born 1930
54 quotes.
Quotes by Warren Buffett
- There’s a whole bunch of things I don’t know a thing about. I just stay away from those. I stay within what I call my circle of competence.
- Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
- Ultimately, there's one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. Nobody can take away what you've got in yourself, and everybody has potential they haven't used yet.
- Ultimately, there’s one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself.
- We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
- We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
- When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
- Why scrap an informed decision because of an uninformed guess?
- You couldn't love anything as much as I loved investments and not get fairly good at it.
- You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.
- You have to be able to think independently, and when you come to a conclusion you have to really not care what other people say. Just follow the facts and your reasoning.
- You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person – Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two.
- You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.
- Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.