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
Warren Buffett quotes about
You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.
All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others,
We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.
You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.