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 best investment you can make is in yourself
The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.
Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill
Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.
As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.
Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.
Is management rational?
Is management candid with the shareholders?
You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.
The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself...The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
Intensity is the price of excellence.