39 Warren Buffett Quotes On Success and Money.
1) “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1”
2) “It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.”
3) “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
4) “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”
5) “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”
6) “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
7) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
8) “If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
9) “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
10) “Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.”
11) “The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.”
12) “If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
13) “Our favorite holding period is forever.”
14) “An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”
15) “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”
16) “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
17) “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
18) “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”
19) “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.”
20) “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
21) “The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.”
22) “Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.”
23) “You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”
24) “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
25) “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
26) “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”
27) “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
28) “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.”
29) “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”
30) “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
31) “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
32) “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.”
33) “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.”
34) “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.”
35) “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”
36) “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”
37) “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”
38) “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”
39) “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
