Warren Buffett Quotes

• Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Advice, Risk

• If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inspiration

• Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

• Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Future, Life

• The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Life, Love

• Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Gift, Honesty, Life

  Tags in Expensive, Cheap

• It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Going

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

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Wrong, Few

• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Being, Know

• You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opportunities, Ideas

• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversification, Doing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in West, Company

• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interesting, Pretty

• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reputation, Remains

• We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

  Warren Buffett

  Tags in Percent, Gdp

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Fear, Uncategorized

  Tags in Greedy, Attempt

• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Process, Enjoy

• We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’

  Warren Buffett

  Tags in One-Night, Engages

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

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Forward

Warren Buffett (66)

Birth:	30th August, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Investor, Philanthropist

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