Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors in history. He has a net worth of US$84 billion as of June 3, 2018, making him the third wealthiest person in the world. Buffett has been the chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway since 1970, and he has been referred to as the "Wizard", "Oracle", or "Sage" of Omaha by global media outlets.
Warren lives by his certain set of values that he uses to invest and make other life decisions. He has some great advice that we can use to be successful.
Here is collection of Warren Buffett quotes about Investment and Success.
"Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.”
“If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
“You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”
“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”
"You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”
"Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”
“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.”
“If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
"The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.”
"If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster."
"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
"I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game."
"The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes."
"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
"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."
"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."
"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute."
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."
