Quote

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

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
Time
Curiosity
Need
Needs
Long

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.
Warren Buffett
Image
It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.
Warren Buffett
Image
The secret to happiness is having low expectations.
Warren Buffett
Image
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
Warren Buffett
Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.
Warren Buffett
Image
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.
Warren Buffett
Image
There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.
Warren Buffett
Image
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
Warren Buffett
Image
Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
Warren Buffett
Image
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
Image
Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
Warren Buffett
Image
The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.
Warren Buffett
Image
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.
Warren Buffett
Image
People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.
Warren Buffett
Image
I think any time you couple the term Wall Street with bailout or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.
Warren Buffett
Image
We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country. Now it takes less than 3 percent. Well, the truth is that market systems move people around.
Warren Buffett
Image
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.
Warren Buffett
Image
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Warren Buffett
Image
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
Warren Buffett
Image
I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.
Warren Buffett