Warren Buffett Quotes
Warren Buffett
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.
"We believe that according the name 'investor' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic."
-- Warren Buffett"I read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest."
-- Warren Buffett"If you lose money for the firm, I will be understanding. If you lose a shred of reputation, I will be ruthless."
-- Warren Buffett"Cash is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent."
-- Warren Buffett"I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor."
-- Warren Buffett"The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money."
-- Warren Buffett"Beware of the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns."
-- Warren Buffett"You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ."
-- Warren Buffett"If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."
-- Warren Buffett"In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love."
-- Warren Buffett"A very rich person should leave their kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing."
-- Warren Buffett"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
-- Warren Buffett"In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine."
-- Warren Buffett"Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market."
-- Warren Buffett"What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know."
-- Warren Buffett"If you aren't willing to own a stock for 10 years, don't even think about owning it for 10 minutes."
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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.
One of Warren Buffett's most widely shared quotes is: "Beware of geeks bearing formulas.".
On mindset, Warren Buffett said: "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.".
On success, Warren Buffett said: "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.".
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