Warren Buffett Quotes

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Inspirational, Time, Today

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

Reputation, Takes, Five

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

Money, Forget, Lose

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

Direction, Behavior, Whose

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

Money, Hope, Down

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

Rich, Knew, Minute

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

Value, Pay, Price

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

Life, Long, Idea

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

Light, Broken, Until

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

Advice, Place, Street

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett

Funny, Cheap, Expensive

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

Goes, Swimming, Discover

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

End, High, Maybe

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett

Around, Step, Jump

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett

Forget, Lose, Second

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

Money, Before, Known

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett

Business, Mirror, Clearer

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

Ignorance, Pretty, Results

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett

Financial, Weapons, Mass

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett

Money, Next, Five

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

Yourself, Find, Energy

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

History, Past, Game

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett

Thought, Poll, Substitute

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

Life, Long, Wrong

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Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 30, 1930

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