01c. 1951 ADTo be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a jobWarren Buffett / quote ↗
02c. 1951 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1951 ADYou 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1951 ADBe Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are FearfulWarren Buffett / quote ↗
06c. 1951 ADI will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
07c. 1951 ADThe difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
08c. 1951 ADThere’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
09c. 1951 ADI could end the deficit in 5 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.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
10c. 1951 ADI 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.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
11c. 1951 ADI insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
12c. 1951 ADIf you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
13c. 1951 ADYou know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
14c. 1951 ADIt takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
16c. 1951 ADFailing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad pressWarren Buffett / quote ↗
17c. 1951 ADIn the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
18c. 1951 ADNever depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
19c. 1951 ADWe need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
20c. 1951 ADOnly when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
21c. 1951 ADI do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
22c. 1951 ADSomebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
23c. 1951 ADHonesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.Warren Buffett / quote ↗
24c. 1951 ADWhen you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.Warren Buffett / quote ↗