Warren Buffett Quotes

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Warren Buffett

August 30 , 1930 – Present

Warren Buffett is a widely quoted figure. Their most powerful quotes on life, success and human nature are collected here for daily inspiration and reflection.

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"Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest."

-- Warren Buffett

"Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest."

-- Warren Buffett

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine."

-- Warren Buffett

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine."

-- Warren Buffett

"If history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."

-- Warren Buffett

"If history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."

-- Warren Buffett

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

-- Warren Buffett

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

-- Warren Buffett

"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."

-- Warren Buffett

"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."

-- Warren Buffett

"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

-- Warren Buffett

"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

-- Warren Buffett

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."

-- Warren Buffett

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."

-- Warren Buffett

"Never invest in a business you cannot understand."

-- Warren Buffett

"Never invest in a business you cannot understand."

-- Warren Buffett

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."

-- Warren Buffett

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."

-- Warren Buffett

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

-- Warren Buffett

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

-- Warren Buffett

"I just sit in my office and read all day."

-- Warren Buffett

"I just sit in my office and read all day."

-- Warren Buffett

"Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving."

-- Warren Buffett

"Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving."

-- Warren Buffett

"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."

-- Warren Buffett

"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."

-- Warren Buffett

"Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source."

-- Warren Buffett

"Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source."

-- Warren Buffett

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

-- Warren Buffett

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

-- Warren Buffett

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

-- Warren Buffett

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

-- Warren Buffett

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

-- Warren Buffett

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

-- Warren Buffett

"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."

-- Warren Buffett

"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."

-- Warren Buffett

"Our favorite holding period is forever."

-- Warren Buffett

"Our favorite holding period is forever."

-- Warren Buffett

"People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most."

-- Warren Buffett

"People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most."

-- Warren Buffett

"Accounting is the language of business."

-- Warren Buffett

"Accounting is the language of business."

-- Warren Buffett

"It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes."

-- Warren Buffett

"It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes."

-- Warren Buffett

"Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1."

-- Warren Buffett

"Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1."

-- Warren Buffett

"If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money."

-- Warren Buffett

"If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money."

-- Warren Buffett

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On mindset, Warren Buffett said: "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.".

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