Warren Buffett Quotes

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

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

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

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

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.