Warren Buffett Quotes:- Warren Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, who is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
He is considered one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net worth of US$88.9 billion as of December 2019, making him the fourth-wealthiest person in the world.
Inspirational Warren Buffett Quotes
“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”-Warren Buffett
“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”-Warren Buffett
“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”-Warren Buffett
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”-Warren Buffett
“Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.”-Warren Buffett
“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”-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.”-Warren Buffett
“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. To a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”-Warren Buffett
“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”-Warren Buffett
“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”-Warren Buffett
“Our favorite holding period is forever.”-Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett Quotes on Investing, Life, And Success
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”-Warren Buffett
“The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”-Warren Buffett
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”-Warren Buffett
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”-Warren Buffett
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.”-Warren Buffett
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”-Warren Buffett
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”-Warren Buffett
“You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.”-Warren Buffett
“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”-Warren Buffett
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”-Warren Buffett
“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”-Warren Buffett
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”-Warren Buffett
Brilliant Quotes by Warren Buffett
“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”-Warren Buffett
“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”-Warren Buffett
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”-Warren Buffett
“You only have to do very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”-Warren Buffett
“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”-Warren Buffett
“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”-Warren Buffett
“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”-Warren Buffett
“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”-Warren Buffett
“Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.”-Warren Buffett
“Value is what you get.”-Warren Buffett
“Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.”-Warren Buffett
“Only when the tide goes out to do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”-Warren Buffett
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”-Warren Buffett
Best Warren Buffett Quotes That Will Inspire You
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”-Warren Buffett
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”-Warren Buffett
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”-Warren Buffett
“We believe that according to the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.'”-Warren Buffett
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”-Warren Buffett
“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”-Warren Buffett
“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”-Warren Buffett
“I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.”-Warren Buffett
“There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.”-Warren Buffett
“We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.”-Warren Buffett
Genius Quotes From Warren Buffett
“I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.”-Warren Buffett
“If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.”-Warren Buffett
“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.”-Warren Buffett
“I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.”-Warren Buffett
“We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.”-Warren Buffett
“We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.”-Warren Buffett
Top Warren Buffett Quotes And Sayings
“It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but it’s not always a smooth ride.”-Warren Buffett
“Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once-unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.”-Warren Buffett
“You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.”-Warren Buffett
“I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.”-Warren Buffett
“The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.”-Warren Buffett
“Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.”-Warren Buffett
“If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”-Warren Buffett
“The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.”-Warren Buffett
“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.”-Warren Buffett
