39 Top Quotes from Warren Buffett - Business Ideas

Warren Buffett was born August 30, 1930, and he is an American business magnate, investor, speaker and philanthropist. He has a lot of famous quotes that focus on life, investing, success, leadership, emotion, and money.

 

39 Top Quotes from Warren Buffett

Why people love his quotes?

Because he is considered one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net worth of $89.9 billion as of May 4, 2019. Take a look 39 top quotes on investing and success from Warren Buffett such as below:

 

1.     “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1” 

2.     “Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.”

3.     “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

4.      “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”

5.     “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”

6.     “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

7.     “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

8.     “If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”

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

10. “Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.”

11. “The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.”

12. “If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”

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

14. “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”

15. “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.'”

16. “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” 

17. “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”

18. “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”

19. “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.”

20.  “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

21. “We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.”

22. “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.”

23. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

24. “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.”

25. “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.”

26. “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.”

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

28. “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.”

29.  “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”

30. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

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

32. “You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”

33. “Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.”

34. “The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.”

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

36. “If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.”

37. “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”

38. “…not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.”

 39.“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”

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