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Life Quotes by Warren Buffett

58 Life quotes by Warren Buffett

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Buffett’s 58 insights blend financial wisdom with everyday life advice, offering a pragmatic perspective that feels both grounded and aspirational. His straightforward style makes each quote a handy reminder of how to balance risk, patience, and purpose.

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Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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Never lie under any circumstances.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

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Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in…

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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…

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the…

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Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you…

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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm…

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You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write,…

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The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life…

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When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have…

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I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for…

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another…

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They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains…

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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have…

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Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business…

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The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would…

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The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the…

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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

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Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

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You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to…

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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that…

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I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate…

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in…

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The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things…

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Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.

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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account…

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“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

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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…

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It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.

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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…

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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to…

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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to…

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

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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.

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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

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