Quotes from Warren Buffett

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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

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.

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

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

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

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.

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.

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

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

You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.