Wisdom from the Oracle – Inspirational Quotes by Warren Buffett

Invest in yourself; it pays the best interest.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

The best investment you can make is in your own abilities.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

The stock market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

You only have to be right once.

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

The key to success is to be in the right place at the right time.

What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

If you like a company, you should buy it even if it has a bad year.

Never depend on a single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

I’m a better investor because I’m a businessman, and a better businessman because I’m an investor.

It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy stocks, which is pretty much the same thing.

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

An investor should act as if he had a second job.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life, it’s about what you inspire others to do.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

We’re not going to let the market tell us what we think.

The happier you are, the more you can make other people happy.

Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

You’re not a product of your environment; you are a product of your thinking.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Some people learn from their mistakes. I prefer to learn from other people’s mistakes.

Investment opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

The most important thing is to know what you don’t know.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

In the end, it’s not about how much money you make, but how much you’re making a difference.

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