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Success Quotes from Warren Buffett

Professor on July 23rd, 2008

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Ever wonder what the richest person in the world thinks about success and prosperity?  Here is your chance to learn from a simple and interesting man.

Warren Buffett Quotes

In my adult business life I have never had to make a choice of trading between professional and personal. I tap-dance to work, and when I get there it’s tremendous fun.- Warren Buffett

I have simple pleasures. I play bridge online for 12 hours a week. Bill and I play, he’s “chalengr” and I’m “tbone”. - Warren Buffett

I just naturally want to do things that make sense. In my personal life too, I don’t care what other rich people are doing. I don’t want a 405 foot boat just because someone else has a 400 foot boat. - Warren Buffett

“I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.” - Warren Buffett

The best way to own common stocks is through an index fund. - Warren Buffett

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

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

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett

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

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Warren Buffett

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

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett

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.
Warren Buffett
Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett

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

Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett

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

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

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