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
My father was the best person i've ever known.
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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.
I've never seen a system as good as Coke has now.