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
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.
It's never paid to bet against America.
My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
Eddie is a very smart guy, but putting Kmart and Sears together is a tough hand.
It's better to hang out with people better than you, ... Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on the person who should succeed me if a replacement were needed today. The directors know now - and will always know in the future - exactly what they will do when the need arises.
You have to learn to understand your partner, to be tolerant, sympathetic, encouraging. Those are skills that are not bad to have in life.
Warren, isn't it fair to say that if we did have an opinion, we wouldn't tell him?
I've never seen a system as good as Coke has now.