Warren Buffett Quotes

• Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Advice, Risk

• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Derivatives, Weapon
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  Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Gift, Honesty, Life

  Tags in Expensive, Cheap
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  Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in God, Risk

  Tags in Game
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  It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Direction, Behavior

• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inspiration

• Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

• Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Future, Life

• The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Life, Love

• It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Wrong, Few

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Fear, Uncategorized

  Tags in Greedy, Attempt

• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful”.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in West, Company

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

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heavy, Chain

• The only time to buy these is on a day with no “y” in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Buy, Day

• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easy, Difficult

• I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Percent, Mean

• It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Buy, Company

• I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just, Look

• I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Step, Look

Warren Buffett (66)

Birth:	30th August, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Investor, Philanthropist

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