Warren Buffet Quotes

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

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

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.

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

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

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

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

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

Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

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