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51 Brilliant Warren Buffett Quotes
Warren Buffett is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist and is considered the most successful investor in the world.
He is the CEO, chairman and biggest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway.
Warren Buffett was ranked the world’s wealthiest person in 2008, and 3rd wealthiest person in 2015.
Take a look at Warren Buffett quotes below:
51 Brilliant Warren Buffett Quotes:
1. “Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.” – Warren Buffett
2. “In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett
3. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
4. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett
5. “The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.” – Warren Buffett
5. “Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.” – Warren Buffett
6. “Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.” – Warren Buffett
7. “If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” – Warren Buffett
8. “You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.” – Warren Buffett
9. “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.” – Warren Buffett
10. “Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” – Warren Buffett
11. “Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.” – Warren Buffett
12. “Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.” – Warren Buffett
13. “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.” – Warren Buffett
14. “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.” – Warren Buffett
15. “I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of American capitalism.” – Warren Buffett
16. “Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett
17. “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” – Warren Buffett
18. “We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.” – Warren Buffett
19. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.” – Warren Buffett
20. “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” – Warren Buffett
21. “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett
22. “Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.” – Warren Buffett
23. “A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.” – Warren Buffett
24. “If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.” – Warren Buffett
25th Warren Buffett Quote – “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
26. “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.” – Warren Buffett
27. “The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.” – Warren Buffett
28. “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.” – Warren Buffett
29. “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” – Warren Buffett
30. “We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.” – Warren Buffett
31. “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.” – Warren Buffett
32. “The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.” – Warren Buffett
33. “Our favorite holding period is forever.” – Warren Buffett
34. “We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.” – Warren Buffett
35. “We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.'” – Warren Buffett
36. “Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.” – Warren Buffett
37. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett
38. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
39. “If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.” – Warren Buffett
40th Warren Buffett Quote – “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett
41. “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffett
42. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett
43. “You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.” – Warren Buffett
44.“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffett
45. “The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.” – Warren Buffett
46. “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.” – Warren Buffett
47. “The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.” – Warren Buffett
48. “Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.” – Warren Buffett
49. “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” – Warren Buffett
50. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett
51. “Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.” – Warren Buffett
What’s your favorite Warren Buffett Quote? Share your favorite quote in the comment section below.
Michelle Obama, wife of former United States President, Barack Obama, an American lawyer and writer, a former First Lady of the United States of America, a mom, an author and a style icon. In the eight amazing years that she served as the First Lady of the United States of America, she managed to become an inspiration for women all across the globe.
She has always spoken and worked towards equal rights for women, education for girls and healthy living. She is the proper definition of the modern-day revolutionary woman. Over the last couple of years, she has been encouraging people everywhere with her incredible words of wisdom and motivation. Every single person – young or old, is sure to take inspiration and motivation from her words.
Here are 30 quotes spoken by Michelle Obama:
1. “When they go low, we go high.”
2. “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
3. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.”
4. “The only limit to the height of your achievement is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.”
5. “Being a healthy woman isn’t about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters – on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.”
6. “As women, we must stand up for ourselves. As women, we must stand up for each other. As women, we must stand up for justice for all.”
7. “No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are BEAUTIFUL.”
8. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.”
9. “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contribution of half of its citizens.”
10. “You don’t have to say anything to the haters. You don’t have to acknowledge them at all. You just wake up every morning and be the best you can be. And that tends to shut them up.”
11. “Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. Let them make you even hungrier to succeed.”
12. “Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.”
13. “When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous.”
14. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.”
15. “Choose people who lift you up.”
16. “The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.”
17. “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.”
18. “Just do what works for you because there will always be someone who thinks differently.”
19. “Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.”
20. “Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar.”
21. “Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. Trust your instincts, good relationships feel good, they feel right, they don’t hurt.”
22. “The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.”
23. “Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.”
24. “I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.”
25. “Changing the big picture takes time… and the best thing to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives. If we’re doing all that – that becomes the collage of real change.”
26. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.”
27. “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.”
28. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
29. “I am an example of what is possible when girls from the beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.”
30. “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.”
What is your favorite quote from Michelle Obama? Comment Below!
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Wallet Squirrel
Sep 21, 2017 at 11:56 pm
I just made a list of my top 22 Warren Buffett Quotes. You have me beat by a few. Awesome job, I love these!
Manish
Oct 12, 2016 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for the awesome quotes but their is one that is one of my favorites but not seen it on the list.
“It’s only when the tide has gone that you see who has been swimming naked”
Sanjeevaraddi H koppad
May 8, 2016 at 8:03 am
I like 40th quote of Warren Buffett