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
The [stock] 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.
In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.
The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.
Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
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.
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.
If 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.
We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.
Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer