Warren Buffet Quotes

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, business tycoon, 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$78.9 billion as of August 2020, making him the seventh-wealthiest person in the world.

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“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

“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.”

“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”

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

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”

“Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”

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

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

“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.”

“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

 “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.”

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

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

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

 “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”

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

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

 “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”