Quotes by Warren Buffett

“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”

“The investor of today does not profit from yesterdays growth.”

“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.”

“You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. Im the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont boo me.”

“Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline, you get rational behavior.”

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you dont need a job

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you dont do too many things wrong.

Risk comes from not knowing what youre doing

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.