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
Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.
When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.
There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.
You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.
Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.
A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.