Warren Buffett Quotes
Browse 80 quotes from Warren Buffett, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
“Look for a job you would take if you didn’t need a job.”
“We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.”
“When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.”
“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”
“If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it’s not a good enough reason.”
“If principles can become dated, they’re not principles.”
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
“We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”
“The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.”
“If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.”
“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.”
“The best investment you can make is in yourself.”
“Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”
“If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.”
“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.”
“Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.”
“Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.”
“The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.”
“How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.”
“Our favorite holding period is forever”
“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient”
“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”
“Never risk what you have and need for what you don't have and don't need.”
“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
“When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it.”
“Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.”
“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”
“The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.”
“There’s never just one cockroach in the kitchen.”
“First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.”
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
“I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.”
“You've got to keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no”
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”
“Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”
“Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.”
“The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don't love you back.”
“You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”
“Intensity is the price of excellence.”
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”
“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
“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.”
“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”
“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”
“If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%”
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.”
“A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.”
