Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.
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
Market
Advantage
Friend
Siren
Enemy
Captivated
Interest
Sirens
Song
Compound
Take
Compounds
Time
Impulse
More quotes by Warren Buffett
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.
Warren Buffett
I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.
Warren Buffett
We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly.
Warren Buffett
... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
Warren Buffett
There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.
Warren Buffett
Focus alone is not enough putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.
Warren Buffett
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
Warren Buffett
Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them
Warren Buffett
Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.
Warren Buffett
... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.
Warren Buffett
I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.
Warren Buffett
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.
Warren Buffett
Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
Warren Buffett
I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.
Warren Buffett
I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.
Warren Buffett
If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.
Warren Buffett
I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.
Warren Buffett
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
Warren Buffett
