Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is considered by some to be one of the most successful investors in the world. Buffett is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, and is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and as the third wealthiest in 2015. In 2012 Time named Buffett one of the world's most influential people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 August 1930
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself...The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.
We've seen what about 50% of our human capacity can accomplish. Visualize what 100% can do.
The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Intensity is the price of excellence.