Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.
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
Rich
Slowly
Easy
Saving
Wells
Biggest
Well
Early
Trying
Habit
Think
Learning
Properly
Thinking
Pretty
Quick
Mistake
Habits
More quotes by Warren Buffett
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.
Warren Buffett
I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.
Warren Buffett
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
Warren Buffett
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
Warren Buffett
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
Warren Buffett
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
Warren Buffett
I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.
Warren Buffett
I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.
Warren Buffett
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
Warren Buffett
Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.
Warren Buffett
Focus alone is not enough putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.
Warren Buffett
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.
Warren Buffett
Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.
Warren Buffett
I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart.
Warren Buffett
You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.
Warren Buffett
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.
Warren Buffett
We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.
Warren Buffett
The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
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
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
Warren Buffett
