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
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.
All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
Buy a business, don't rent stocks.
It's us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.
An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.
There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.