Quote

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

Warren Buffett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren Buffett
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 30
Entrepreneur
Financier
Investor
Shareholder
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren Edward Buffett
Seeing
Printed
Friends
Newspaper
Family
Ashamed
Anything
Page
Never
Newspapers
Would
Pages
Life
Fronts
Front

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
Warren Buffett
Image
The advice you never go broke taking a profit is foolish.
Warren Buffett
Image
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.
Warren Buffett
Image
We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.
Warren Buffett
Image
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
Warren Buffett
Image
What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.
Warren Buffett
Image
A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.
Warren Buffett
Image
You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.
Warren Buffett
Image
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
Warren Buffett
Image
Does management resist the institutional imperative?
Warren Buffett
Image
Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.
Warren Buffett
Image
In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
Warren Buffett
Image
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett
Image
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
Image
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett
Image
I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).
Warren Buffett
Image
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.
Warren Buffett
Image
At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.
Warren Buffett
Image
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
Warren Buffett
Image
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
Warren Buffett