Warren Buffett quotes are brainy but also gives quite a lot of financial advice. He has a lot to say about trading and business in general. This should come as no surprise since he held the title of the world’s richest man for a lengthy period before Jeff Bezos passed him out. He is well known for making lots of money through bug investments, he has bought established firms and taken them to another level.
Warren Buffett started selling stocks at a very young age, he was influenced by his father who was involved in stocks. At just eleven years old he worked at his family’s grocery store and he saw his investment return dividends. He pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune through a foundation by Melinda and Bill Gates. Hear from a man who may have experienced it all. Look at these amazing quotes from a financial mastermind.
Quote #1 "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” |
Quote #2 “Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.” |
Quote #3 “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.” |
Quote #4 “Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.” |
Quote #5 “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” |
Quote #6 “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” |
Quote #7 “The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.” |
Quote #8 “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” |
Quote #9 “Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.” |
Quote #10 “A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.” |
Quote #11 “I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.” |
Quote #12 “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.” |
Quote #13 “Our favorite holding period is forever.” |
Quote #14 “The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.” |
Quote #15 “If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” |
Quote #16 “Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.” |
Quote #17 “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” |
Quote #18 “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” |
Quote #19 “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.” |
Quote #20 “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” |
Quote #21 “I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.” |
Quote #22 “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.” |
Quote #23 “I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” |
Quote #24 “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” |
Quote #25 “Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.” |
Quote #26 “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.” |
Quote #27 “It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” |
Quote #28 "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful." |
Quote #29 "Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'." |
Quote #30 "Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business." |
Quote #31 "Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years." |
Quote #32 "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." |
Quote #33 "Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre." |
Quote #34 "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." |
Quote #35 "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." |
Quote #36 "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." |
Quote #37 "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." |
Quote #38 "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." |
Quote #39 "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.'" |
Quote #40 "Beware of geeks bearing formulas." |
Quote #41 "Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction." |
Quote #42 "When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results." |
Quote #43 "I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism." |
Quote #44 "There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it." |
Quote #45 "You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it." |
Quote #46 "We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time." |
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Warren Buffett is still actively involved in the business world and controls over 60 companies. Some of his companies are very popular and allow him to rake in quite a profit. Warren has said that he thinks LeBron James has a money mind and is clearly impressed by him. Warren Buffet is definitely some one to listen to and his quotes are worth taking into account.