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
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.
It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.
I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get going.
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.