Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.
Warren Buffett
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
Take
Important
Make
Investment
Taxes
Nobody
Away
More quotes by Warren Buffett
A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well
Warren Buffett
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
Warren Buffett
Exercise humility and restraint.
Warren Buffett
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.
Warren Buffett
Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.
Warren Buffett
Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.
Warren Buffett
Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.
Warren Buffett
I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what Berkshire Hathaway is doing? Why isn't that a better deal for America?
Warren Buffett
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.
Warren Buffett
Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory
Warren Buffett
If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.
Warren Buffett
The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.
Warren Buffett
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.
Warren Buffett
A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.
Warren Buffett
We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as focused investing.
Warren Buffett
Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.
Warren Buffett
Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
Warren Buffett
You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.
Warren Buffett
To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.
Warren Buffett