I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
—Warren Buffett
It is not greed that drives the world, but envy.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Envy
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Money
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Future
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
—Warren Buffett
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Simplicity
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
Topics: Character, Reputation, Wisdom, Entrepreneurs
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Pleasure
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Business
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Business, Management
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Journalism
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Business
The cost of every deal we do is measured by the second best deal that’s around at a given time, including doing more of some of the things we’re already in.
—Warren Buffett
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Profit, The Past, Past
A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Public opinion, Opinion, Opinions
We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we’ll wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.
—Warren Buffett
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Risk
The war on terrorism can never be won.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Terrorism
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.
—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
Topics: Opportunity
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
—Warren Buffett
Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Patience
If I ever write a book it will be called, Why Smart People Do Dumb Things. My partner says it should be autobiographical.
—Warren Buffett
I don’t worry about what I don’t know. I worry about being sure about what I do know.
—Warren Buffett
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.
—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
Topics: Management
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over… your problem won’t improve with age.
—Warren Buffett
The really desirable business is the one that doesn’t take any money to operate because it’s already proven that money will not enable anyone to get a position within the business. Those are the great businesses.
—Warren Buffett
The perfect amount of money to leave children is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they would do nothing.
—Warren Buffett
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Reputation
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