“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

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

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

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

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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

When people tell me they’ve learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people’s experience.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

It’s much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Your customers get better when you do.

Don’t wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Let’s go invent tomorrow.

I never invest in anything that I don’t understand.

Stay open to something new; be willing to change.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.