"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"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"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 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"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"It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong."
-- 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"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"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"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"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"The three most important words in investing are margin of safety."
-- Warren Buffett"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful."
-- Warren Buffett"The business world is full of people who think they are smarter than they really are."
-- Warren Buffett