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
We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.
It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.
If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.
If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.
Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.
If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'
I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.
If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.
Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.
What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.