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
With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.
It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.