Success Advice
Do It Like Warren Buffett – 10 Ways To Get Rich

With an estimated fortune of $62 billion, Warren Buffett was, at one point, the richest man in the entire world.
In this post Warren Buffett shows you how you can become rich.
Here are Warren Buffett’s Top 10 Ways to get rich!
1. Reinvest Your Profits:
When you first make money, you may be tempted to spend it. Don’t. Instead, reinvest the profits. Warren Buffett learned this early on. In high school, he and a pal bought a pinball machine to pun in a barbershop. With the money they earned, they bought more machines until they had eight in different shops. When the friends sold the venture, Warren Buffett used the proceeds to buy stocks and to start another small business. By age 26, he’d amassed $174,000 — or $1.4 million in today’s money. Even a small sum can turn into great wealth.
2. Be Willing To Be Different:
Don’t base your decisions upon what everyone is saying or doing. When Warren Buffett began managing money in 1956 with $100,000 cobbled together from a handful of investors, he was dubbed an oddball. He worked in Omaha, not Wall Street, and he refused to tell his parents where he was putting their money. People predicted that he’d fail, but when he closed his partnership 14 years later, it was worth more than $100 million. Instead of following the crowd, he looked for undervalued investments and ended up vastly beating the market average every single year.
To Warren Buffett, the average is just that — what everybody else is doing. To be above average, you need to measure yourself by what he calls the Inner Scorecard, judging yourself by your own standards and not the world’s.
3. Never Suck Your Thumb:
Gather in advance any information you need to make a decision, and ask a friend or relative to make sure that you stick to a deadline.
Warren Buffett prides himself on swiftly making up his mind and acting on it. He calls any unnecessary sitting and thinking “thumb sucking.” When people offer him a business or an investment, he says, “I won’t talk unless they bring me a price.” He gives them an answer on the spot.
4. Spell Out The Deal Before You Start:
Your bargaining leverage is always greatest before you begin a job — that’s when you have something to offer that the other party wants. Warren Buffett learned this lesson the hard way as a kid, when his grandfather Ernest hired him and a friend to dig out the family grocery store after a blizzard. The boys spent five hours shovelling until they could barely straighten their frozen hands. Afterward, his grandfather gave the pair less than 90 cents to split.
Warren Buffett was horrified that he performed such backbreaking work only to earn pennies an hour. Always nail down the specifics of a deal in advance — even with your friends and relatives.
5. Watch Small Expenses:
Warren Buffett invests in businesses run by managers who obsess over the tiniest costs. He once acquired a company whose owner counted the sheets in rolls of 500-sheet toilet paper to see if he was being cheated (he was). He also admired a friend who painted only on the side of his office building that faced the road. Exercising vigilance over every expense can make your profits — and your paycheck — go much further.
6. Limit What You Borrow:
Living on credit cards and loans won’t make you rich. Warren Buffett has never borrowed a significant amount — not to invest, not for a mortgage. He has gotten many heart-rendering letters from people who thought their borrowing was manageable but became overwhelmed by debt.
His advice: Negotiate with creditors to pay what you can. Then, when you’re debt-free, work on saving some money that you can use to invest.
7. Be Persistent:
With tenacity and ingenuity, you can win against a more established competitor. Warren Buffett acquired the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1983 because he liked the way its founder, Rose Blumkin, did business. A Russian immigrant, she built the mart from a pawnshop into the largest furniture store in North America. Her strategy was to undersell the big shots, and she was a merciless negotiator. To Warren Buffett, Rose embodied the unwavering courage that makes a winner out of an underdog.
8. Know When To Quit:
Once, when Warren Buffett was a teen, he went to the racetrack. He bet on a race and lost. To recoup his funds, he bet on another race. He lost again, leaving him with close to nothing. He felt sick — he had squandered nearly a week’s earnings. Warren Buffett never repeated that mistake.
Know when to walk away from a loss, and don’t let anxiety fool you into trying again.
9. Assess The Risk:
In 1995, the employer of Warren Buffett’s son, Howie, was accused by the FBI of price-fixing. Warren Buffett advised Howie to imagine the worst-and-bast-case scenarios if he stayed with the company. His son quickly realized that the risks of staying far outweighed any potential gains, and he quit the next day.
Asking yourself “and then what?” can help you see all of the possible consequences when you’re struggling to make a decision — and can guide you to the smartest choice.
10. Know What Success Really Means:
Despite his wealth, Warren Buffett does not measure success by dollars. In 2006, he pledged to give away almost his entire fortune to charities, primarily the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He’s adamant about not funding monuments to himself — no Warren Buffett buildings or halls.
“I know people who have a lot of money,” he says, and they get testimonial dinners and hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.”
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Mpho John
Mar 4, 2015 at 11:37 am
One thing 4 sure is persistence and stack the profits to work more hard
Tim Denning
Feb 1, 2015 at 4:41 am
Warren Buffet is one of my favourite people because he is just really patient. If there is one lesson we can all learn it’s to be more patient – especially when it comes to investing.
Lisa Vickery
Dec 31, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Really love the end of #10. Mr. Buffet just gets “it”. Great article. Keep up the great work!
Arlene Modderman
Jul 22, 2013 at 4:19 pm
I love them all, but number 3 really resonates with me- an all time procrastinator when it comes to tough decisions, I will remind myself of “thumb- sucking” along with being “prepared” so I won’t be afraid of making the wrong choices! Joel – I love following you on twitter, your posts are so awesome!
Nicole
Jul 6, 2013 at 4:37 pm
I am LOVING this article! Such great stuff here that I will carry with me into the future. 🙂
Joel
Jul 6, 2013 at 4:42 pm
Thank you Nicole, all the best with your success 🙂
Brady B. Melk
May 31, 2013 at 11:50 am
Great article on Warren Buffet… Do you have any late bloomers success stories…???
Ebenezer Okorie Atulegwu
Mar 9, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Any success without love is unsustainable.Since love is required at the end by billionairs like Warren Buffett let’s consider love at the beginning as a supreme force and factor which can help to moderate the extremes of capitalism. Many millionairs who did not follow the love principles of Buffett and Bill Gates committed suicide because of the vacuum which only love could fill. Profits from competitive strategies should be appropriated with love of the people.
Martha Ware
Mar 9, 2013 at 4:52 pm
One of the points that always intrigue me is “be willing to be different”. I am always looking into not what my competition is doing, but what it is not, so I can maybe come up with a new service, a new product, a new idea.
And the one that I most take to heart is “know what success really means” – when you determine what success means to you, you will be very clear about your goals and will be able to be proud of the small achievements that will take you closer to your big objective. Success is about what it means to yourself!
herbert
Nov 27, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Paragraph number 10 i think identify the character of warren buffet.He is not concerned about how he is preceived now but how he is remembered.This attitude is a garantee formula for success
Keiran
Jun 30, 2012 at 5:13 pm
These are all great tips. I read, “The Warren Buffet Way”, recently but these all seem to be extras that weren’t in there (unless I missed them).
If I had to pick one it would be number 4. Spell Out The Deal Before You Start. If there’s one thing that’s caused me more problems in business than anything else it’s not being specific enough about what will be done for the money we are being paid. I see a lot of businesses doing this very well and I try to emulate them wherever possible.
Sterling
May 15, 2013 at 9:33 pm
How were you able to get your picture on this comments list when you spoke your mind? No one else seems to have their picture except you.
Joel
May 16, 2013 at 7:11 pm
Hi Sterling. You need a Gravatar account so your image shows up.
Khloe
Jun 27, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Hi, the article took quite a while to read but it was certainly worth it
Maria
May 28, 2011 at 8:12 am
awsome…im ur huge fan Mr warren buffetts