Warren Buffett quotes.
All 24 quotations by Warren Buffett in our collection.
“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
“Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.”
“Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.”
“If you wait until you see the robin, spring will be over.”
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money; rule No. 2: Don’t forget rule No. 1.”
“I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”
“Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”
“We can afford to lose money – even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation.”
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
“It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.”
“There's plenty of money to be made in the center of the court.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“The best place to learn ethics is in the home.”
“Shortly after I met Bill Gates, Bill's dad asked each of us to write down on a piece of paper one word that would best describe what had helped us the most. Bill and I, without any collaboration at all, each wrote the word "focus.”
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
“We make silk purses out of silk.”
“If you're emotional about investment, you're not going to do well. You may have all these feelings about the stock. The stock has no feelings about you.”
“If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.”
“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.”
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