Quote

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

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
People
Measure
Loved
Success
Best
Many
Way
Love

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett
Image
When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
Warren Buffett
Image
I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.
Warren Buffett
Image
Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.
Warren Buffett
Image
Does management resist the institutional imperative?
Warren Buffett
Image
A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.
Warren Buffett
Image
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
Image
The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read one year's experience-twenty times.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
Warren Buffett
Image
It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller
Warren Buffett
Image
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.
Warren Buffett
Image
It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.
Warren Buffett
Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times 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. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
Warren Buffett
Image
We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.
Warren Buffett
Image
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Warren Buffett
Image
I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.
Warren Buffett
Image
It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.
Warren Buffett
Image
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.
Warren Buffett