Quote

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

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
Mean
Rewards
Good
Doctors
Life
Market
Teacher
System
Deserving
Fighting
Fights
Doesn
Afghanistan
Someone
Doctor

More quotes by Warren Buffett

Image
Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.
Warren Buffett
Image
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Warren Buffett
Image
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
Warren Buffett
Image
There is no question we have an access stock.
Warren Buffett
Image
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
Warren Buffett
Image
It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.
Warren Buffett
Image
At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.
Warren Buffett
Image
Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.
Warren Buffett
Image
Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.
Warren Buffett
Image
We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
Warren Buffett
Image
It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.
Warren Buffett
Image
You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes
Warren Buffett
Image
I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.
Warren Buffett
Image
We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.
Warren Buffett
Image
Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
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
Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one
Warren Buffett
Image
I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.
Warren Buffett
Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money
Warren Buffett
Image
The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.
Warren Buffett