August 30 Quotes

259 quotes in this collection

"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

"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

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

-- Warren Buffett

"Accounting is the language of business."

-- 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

"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

"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

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- 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

"The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money."

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- Warren Buffett

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

-- 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Intensity is the price of excellence."

-- 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

"In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine."

-- Warren Buffett

"In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine."

-- 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

"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

"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

"I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think."

-- Warren Buffett

"I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think."

-- 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

"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."

-- Warren Buffett

"If you aren't willing to own a stock for 10 years, don't even think about owning it for 10 minutes."

-- Warren Buffett

"The three most important words in investing are margin of safety."

-- Warren Buffett

"The three most important words in investing are margin of safety."

-- Warren Buffett