Warren Buffett Quotes

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

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Place

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrible, Comfortable

• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Mediocre

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

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easy, Difficult

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying, Improve

• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Degree, Teacher

• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spend, Worked

• The only time to buy these is on a day with no “y” in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Buy, Day

• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Investor, Growth

• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule, Second

• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Behavior

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leaks, Energy

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

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never Forget, Rule

• Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in God, Risk

  Tags in Game

• Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doing, Knowing

• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pay, Value

• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

  Warren Buffett

  Tags in Tide, Swimming

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

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Buy, Market

• 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

  Tags in Basic, Jerks

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Market

Warren Buffett (66)

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

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