Warren Buffett Quotes

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

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.

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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

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

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

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.

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

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

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

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

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

I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

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

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

Accounting is the language of business.

Never depend on a single source of income.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

The key to success is emotional stability.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

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.

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.

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

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

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

Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

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

Never invest in a business you can't understand

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.