Warren Buffett Quotes

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.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Money Rich Trait
I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Idiot Investment Try Wonderful
We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Declutter Discipline Entrepreneur Inspirational Smart
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.
WARREN BUFFETT

Agenda Control Inspirational Life People Time Wasted Time
Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Entrepreneur Hobby World
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Motivational One Liner Risk
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Combination Ignorance Interesting Leverage Pretty Result
Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
WARREN BUFFETT

Book Build Compound Interest Knowledge Learning Reading
Our favorite holding period is forever.
WARREN BUFFETT

Forever Hold On Inspirational One Liner Period
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field, not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
WARREN BUFFETT

Field Focus Game Investment Score Sports Stock Market Win
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
WARREN BUFFETT

Baber Decision Deep Hairs Need One Liner
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

Association Behaviour Direction Hang People Yourself
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
WARREN BUFFETT

Inspirational Learning Live Positive
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Buy Company Money Price Wonderful
An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.
WARREN BUFFETT

Act Decision Investment Lifetime
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
WARREN BUFFETT

Die Entrepreneur Finding Money Sleep
You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.
WARREN BUFFETT

Achievement Effort Extraordinary Motivational Need Ordinary Result
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
WARREN BUFFETT

Asset Business Company Investment Wonderful
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
WARREN BUFFETT

Asset Business Company Investment Wonderful
Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Investment Save Spend
The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.
WARREN BUFFETT

Education Forever Investment Learning Mind Money Relationship Young
In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Energy Integrity Intelligence Look People Quality
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
WARREN BUFFETT

Bucket Business Frequently Gold Investment Rain
If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.
WARREN BUFFETT

Book Game History Library Money Need Past People Rich
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
WARREN BUFFETT

Business Clear Mirror World
Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
WARREN BUFFETT

Beware Formula
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
WARREN BUFFETT

Healing Hole Important Problem Trouble Yourself

Famous Entrepreneur