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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotations by Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Inspirational Quotations by Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Warren Buffett (b.1930) is an American investor, businessman, financier, and philanthropist.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was 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 stoke 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 businesses 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 complex, sprawling collection of businesses and investments.

Buffett is one of the richest 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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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you’re going to turn out in life.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Life

You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right—and that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.
—Warren Buffett

If you don’t know jewelry, know the jeweler.
—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

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

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
—Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
—Warren Buffett

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.
—Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
—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

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
—Warren Buffett

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
—Warren Buffett

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Business

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Business

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
—Warren Buffett

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
—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 team 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: Business

If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
—Warren Buffett

A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.
—Warren Buffett

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

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
—Warren Buffett

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

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.
—Warren Buffett

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

I really like my life. I’ve arranged my life so that I can do what I want.
—Warren Buffett

It’s never a good idea to wait to do anything; given the uncertainty of life, just get going.
—Warren Buffett

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

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
—Warren Buffett

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

We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we’ll wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.
—Warren Buffett

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
—Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation … and five minutes to ruin it.
—Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
—Warren Buffett
Topics: Values, Value

We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow’s obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
—Warren Buffett

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
—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

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
—Warren Buffett

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
—Warren Buffett

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
—Warren Buffett

The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.
—Warren Buffett

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