Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
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… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share
