Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Warren Buffett (b.1930) is an American investor, businessman, financier, and philanthropist. As chairman, CEO, and principal shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, a financial and industrial conglomerate that he has led since 1964, Buffett is one of the world’s wealthiest people.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, where he grew up and continues to reside, Buffett is affectionately known to many as the “Oracle of Omaha.” He is an incredibly successful investor whose string of successes cannot be attributed to a stroke of luck. Throughout his long career, he has been made money with diverse investment strategies, but with a core philosophy that has remained unchanged—analyzing businesses, not just their stocks, and then buying stock in companies when their stock prices are down relative to intrinsic value.

As leaders of the American conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett and his longtime business partner, Charlie Munger, have earned enormous respect as brilliant investors. They oversee a vast empire of a sophisticated, sprawling collection of businesses and investments.

Buffett is one of the wealthiest persons in the world, and one of the world’s leading philanthropists. Despite his colossal wealth, he is the antithesis of an ostentatious billionaire—he lives parsimoniously, drives a humble car, and still resides in the unpretentious home he bought in 1958 for $31,500. In 2006, he announced plans to give 83 percent of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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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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