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
The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.
Look for companies with high profit margins.
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.
You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
You can't make a good deal with a bad person.
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
The key to success is emotional stability.
You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself
We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.