Quote

Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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
Things
Like
World
Hobby
Hobbies
Business
Doe

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.
Warren Buffett
Image
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Warren Buffett
Image
Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one
Warren Buffett
Image
People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.
Warren Buffett
Image
The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
Warren Buffett
Image
I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett
Image
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
Warren Buffett
Image
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.
Warren Buffett
Image
There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
Warren Buffett
Image
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
Warren Buffett
Image
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.
Warren Buffett
Image
I know that Congress will do the right thing.
Warren Buffett
Image
It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.
Warren Buffett
Image
Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.
Warren Buffett
Image
Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.
Warren Buffett
Image
My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.
Warren Buffett
Image
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
Warren Buffett
Image
Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.
Warren Buffett
Image
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett