Warren Buffett Quotes

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

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Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

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No matter how great the talent or efforts are, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

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You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with magic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

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

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The rich invest in time, and the poor invest in money.

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Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.

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Money is Like Cow Poop, it Does No Good Unless You Spread It Around.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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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.

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In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

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In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.

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I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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

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

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When a person with money meets a person with experience, the one with experience ends up with the money and the one with money leaves with experience.

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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

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Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.

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ABCs of business decay, are arrogance, bureaucracy, and complacency.

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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent.

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The key is having more information than the other guy – then analyzing it right and using it rationally.

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The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

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If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.

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If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

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

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I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.

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You should never test the depth of the water with both feet.

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.

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The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

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You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.

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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

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If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

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Do not save what is left after spending; instead, spend what is left after saving.

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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

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

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

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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

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Get something to improve yourself by at least 1% each day.

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Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about.

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If you wait till you know everything it’s too late.

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An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.

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I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.

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The happiest people do not necessarily have the best things. They simply appreciate the things they have.

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If you are not happy being in the top one-tenth of one percent wealthiest people on earth, being in the top one-hundredth of one percent isn’t going to do anything for you.

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

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Don’t work for money, make money work for you.

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

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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

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Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.

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There’s never just one cockroach in the kitchen.

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

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