August 30 Quotes

259 quotes in this collection

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. Words of determination tailored for relentless professionals."

-- Warren Buffett

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Warren Buffett

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Words of determination tailored for relentless professionals."

-- Warren Buffett

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. A profound reflection on strategy, value, and corporate growth."

-- Warren Buffett

"In a world of infinite change, the fundamental principles of value remain the same."

-- Warren Buffett

"Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill."

-- Warren Buffett

"It is better to be a small part of a great business than a large part of a mediocre one."

-- Warren Buffett

"A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician."

-- Warren Buffett

"It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things."

-- Warren Buffett

"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

"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

"Accounting is the language of business."

-- 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

"You should write your obituary and then try to live up to it."

-- Warren Buffett

"I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor."

-- Warren Buffett

"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is."

-- 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

"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

"Beware of the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns."

-- Warren Buffett

"If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."

-- Warren Buffett

"It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong."

-- Warren Buffett

"A very rich person should leave their kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing."

-- Warren Buffett

"Intensity is the price of excellence."

-- Warren Buffett
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