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

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.

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.

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

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

I know I’ll never trust a single thing you say. You knew your lies would divide us, but you lied anyway. And all the lies have got you floating up above us all. But what goes up has got to fall

Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.