Welcome to a treasure trove of wisdom from one of the most successful investors of all time - Warren Buffett.Delve into this curated collection of Warren Buffett quotes,offering timeless insights into finance,leadership,and life itself.As you explore these pearls of wisdom,you'll gain valuable perspectives on wealth creation,investment strategies,and personal growth.Join us on a journey through the mind of a financial genius,and let Warren Buffett's words inspire and guide you towards your own path to success.
Warren Buffett Quotes:
1. “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”
3. “American business — and consequently a basket of stocks — is virtually certain to be worth far more in the years ahead.”
4. “I won’t say if my candidate doesn’t win,and probably half the time they haven’t,I’m going to take my ball and go home.”
5. “Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.”
6. “Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks,I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.”
7. “The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble…We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table.”
8. “Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is.The time to get interested is when no one else is.You can’t buy what is popular and do well.”
9. “The most common cause of low prices is pessimism—sometimes pervasive,sometimes specific to a company or industry.We want to do business in such an environment,not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.It’s optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.”
10. “We always live in an uncertain world.What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.”
Warren Buffett Quotes On Life:
11. “After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses,Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems.What we have learned is to avoid them.”
12. “Keep things simple and don’t swing for the fences.When promised quick profits,respond with a quick “no.”
13. “Half of all coin-flippers will win their first toss; none of those winners has an expectation of profit if he continues to play the game.”
14. “If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money,the richest people would be librarians.”
15. “Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.”
16. “What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.”
17. “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."
18. “…not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.”
19. “Money is not everything.Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.”
20. “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
Warren Buffett Quotes On Money:
21. “Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable.They shouldn’t.They have opted for a terrible long-term asset,one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.”
22. “So smile when you read a headline that says‘Investors lose as market falls.’Edit it in your mind to‘Disinvestors lose as market falls—but investors gain.’Though writers often forget this truism,there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.”
23. “The years ahead will occasionally deliver major market declines — even panics — that will affect virtually all stocks.No one can tell you when these traumas will occur.”
24. “Predicting rain doesn’t count,building the ark does.”
25. “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.”
26. “The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down.”
27. “This does not bother Charlie [Munger] and me.Indeed,we enjoy such price declines if we have funds available to increase our positions.”
28. “It’s been an ideal period for investors: A climate of fear is their best friend.Those who invest only when commentators are upbeat end up paying a heavy price for meaningless reassurance.”
29. “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.”
30. “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
Warren Buffett On Friendship:
31. “Lose money for the firm,and I will be understanding.Lose a shred of reputation for the firm,and I will be ruthless.”
32. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.If you think about that,you’ll do things differently.”
33. “If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you,I don’t care how big your bank account is,your life is a disaster.”
34. “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.”
35. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
36. “I always knew I was going to be rich.I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
37. “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”
38.“Honesty is a very expensive gift.Don’t expect it from cheap people.”
39. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
40. “When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees,it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits,not the clients.”
Warren Buffett Quotes On Love:
41. “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity,you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”
42. “You’ve gotta keep control of your time,and you can’t unless you say no.You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”
43. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
44. “In the world of business,the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
45. “Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.”
46. “You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence.The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries,however,is vital.”
47. “You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”
48. “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.”
49. “Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.”
50. “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
Warren Buffett Quotes On Investment:
51. “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
52. “Read 500 pages like this every day.That’s how knowledge works.It builds up,like compound interest.All of you can do it,but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
53. “I insist on a lot of time being spent,almost every day,to just sit and think.That is very uncommon in American business.I read and think.So I do more reading and thinking,and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.”
54. “One can best prepare themselves for the economic future by investing in your own education.If you study hard and learn at a young age,you will be in the best circumstances to secure your future.”
55. “I had a great teacher in life,my father.But I had another great teacher in terms of profession in terms of Ben Graham.I was lucky enough to get the right foundation very early on.And then basically I didn’t listen to anybody else.I just look in the mirror every morning and the mirror always agrees with me.And I go out and do what I believe I should be doing.And I’m not influenced by what other people think.”
56. “Imagine that you had a car and that was the only car you’d have for your entire lifetime.Of course,you’d care for it well,changing the oil more frequently than necessary,driving carefully,etc.Now,consider that you only have one mind and one body.Prepare them for life, care for them. You can enhance your mind over time.A person’s main asset is themselves,so preserve and enhance yourself.”
57. “Opportunities come infrequently.When it rains gold,put out the bucket,not the thimble.”
58. “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”
59. “Diversification is protection against ignorance.It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”
60. “The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.”
Warren Buffett Quotes On Success:
61. “It’s better to have a partial interest in the Hope diamond than to own all of a rhinestone.”
62. “Buy a stock the way you would buy a house.Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.”
63. “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”
64. “There is nothing wrong with a ‘know nothing’ investor who realizes it.The problem is when you are a ‘know nothing’ investor but you think you know something.”
65. “What counts for most people in investing vs saving is not how much they know,but rather how realistically they define what they don’t know.”
66. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist.Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”
67. “The stock market is a no-called-strike game.You don’t have to swing at everything — you can wait for your pitch.”
68. “Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ … what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”
69. “The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.”
70. “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
Warren Buffett Quotes On Saving:
71. “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
72. “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.’’
73. “An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”
74. “Do not take yearly results too seriously.Instead,focus on four or five-year averages.”
75. “Time is the friend of the wonderful company,the enemy of the mediocre.”
76. “Our favorite holding period is forever.”
77. “If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years,don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
78. “The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.”
79. “Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.”
80. “Successful investing takes time,discipline,and patience.No matter how great the talent or effort,some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
Warren Buffett Quotes Money Is Not Everything:
81. “It is a terrible mistake for investors with long-term horizons — among them pension funds,college endowments,and savings-minded individuals — to measure their investment ‘risk’ by their portfolio’s ratio of bonds to stocks.”
82. “I never attempt to make money on the stock market.I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
83. “All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.”
84. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
85. “For the investor,a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.”
86. “If a business does well,the stock eventually follows.”
87. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price,than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
88. “On the margin of safety,which means, don’t try and drive a 9,800-pound truck over a bridge that says it’s,you know,capacity: 10,000 pounds. But go down the road a little bit and find one that says,capacity: 15,000 pounds.”
89. “The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society,or how much it will grow,but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and,above all,the durability of that advantage.”
90. “The three most important words in investing are margin of safety.”
Warren Buffett Quotes On Stock Market:
91. “In the business world,the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
92. “If returns are going to be 7 or 8 percent and you’re paying 1 percent for fees,that makes an enormous difference in how much money you’re going to have in retirement.”
93. “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”
94. “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”
95. “For the investor,a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.”
96. “Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.”
97. “Price is what you pay.Value is what you get.”
98. “The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
99. “Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.”
100. “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 Quotes To Live By:
101. "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
102. "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."
103. "It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked."
104. "In the business world,the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."
105. "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."
106."Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
107. "It's not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."
108. "Price is what you pay.Value is what you get."
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Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget
109. "Opportunities come infrequently.When it rains gold,put out the bucket,not the thimble."
110. "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."
Warren Buffett Quotes On Character:
111. "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.If you think about that,you'll do things differently."
112. "The best thing I did was choose the right heroes."
113. "If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity,you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%."
114. "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
115. "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."
116. "Our favorite holding period is forever."
117. "If you're not willing to own a stock for ten years,don't even think about owning it for ten minutes."
118. "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."
119. "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior,but simple behavior is more effective."
120. "The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging."
Warren Buffett Quotes Greedy:
121. "Diversification is protection against ignorance.It makes little sense if you know what you are doing."
122. "The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it."
123. "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."
124. "I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.Because sooner or later,one will."
125. "If a business does well,the stock eventually follows."
126. "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."
127. "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
128. "The most important investment you can make is in yourself."
129. "I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."
130. "In the short term,the market is a voting machine,but in the long term,it is a weighing machine."
Warren Buffett Quotes On Leadership:
131. "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in limousines to get advice from those who take the subway."
132. "If you're not willing to react with equanimity to a market price decline of 50% two or three times a century,you're not fit to be a common shareholder,and you deserve the mediocre result you're going to get compared to the people who do have the temperament,who can be more philosophical about these market fluctuations."
133. "The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."
134. "The best investment you can make is in yourself.The more you learn,the more you earn."
135. "A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
136. "I never attempt to make money on the stock market.I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
137. "If you can't read the scoreboard,you don't know the score.If you don't know the score,you can't tell the winners from the losers."
138. "You don't need to be a rocket scientist.Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ."
139. "There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
140. "The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices,but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital."
Warren Buffett Quotes More Quote:
141. "The only way to get love is to be lovable.It's very irritating if you have a lot of money.You'd like to think you could write a check: I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.But it doesn't work that way.The more you give love away,the more you get."
142. "I am a better investor because I am a businessman,and a better businessman because I am an investor."
143. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
144. "If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years,then don't own it for 10 minutes."
145. "The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.'"
146. "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
147. "There's a lot of wisdom in not getting so far ahead of your audience that they don't understand what you're talking about."
148. "You don't have to be a genius to invest well.But you do have to have patience."
149. "When you combine ignorance and leverage,you get some pretty interesting results."
150. "I never ask my dentist if I should buy a stock."
In conclusion,the enduring wisdom encapsulated in Warren Buffett quotes serves as a beacon of guidance for investors,entrepreneurs,and individuals seeking financial prosperity and personal fulfillment.As we reflect on Buffett's timeless principles,we are reminded of the importance of patience,rationality,and long-term thinking in navigating the complexities of the financial world.Let these profound insights continue to inspire and inform your decisions,propelling you towards your goals and aspirations.Embrace the teachings of Warren Buffett,and embark on a journey of wealth creation and self-discovery with confidence and clarity.
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