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
Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up
Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.
The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.