Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. "
Warren Buffett
Knew
Minute
Always
Related Quotes:
" I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. "
Warren Buffett
Man
Believe
Earth
" We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. "
Warren Buffett
Forward
World
Always
" Our favorite holding period is forever. "
Warren Buffett
Favorite
Forever
Holding
" Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "
Warren Buffett
You
Risk
Not Knowing
" When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. "
Warren Buffett
Reputation
Bad
Management
" Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. "
Warren Buffett
Naked
You
Tide
" When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. "
Warren Buffett
Interesting
Ignorance
Results
" Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. "
Warren Buffett
Forget
Money
Lose
" You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. "
Warren Buffett
October
Time
People
" 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
Opportunities
My Life
Ideas
" 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. "
Warren Buffett
Life Is A
Nobody
You
" I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter. "
Warren Buffett
Reputation
People
Political
" 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
Good
Why
Said
" The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. "
Warren Buffett
You
Big
People
" The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. "
Warren Buffett
Time
Only
Day
" I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board. "
Warren Buffett
Country
Bull
Will
" I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. "
Warren Buffett
Over
Step
Look
" Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. "
Warren Buffett
Street
Place
People
" 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
Behavior
Better
Direction
" Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. "
Warren Buffett
Brand
Business
Going
" 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
Known
Out
Money
" Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time. "
Warren Buffett
Wanting
More
Fear
" Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. "
Warren Buffett
Only
Understand
Diversification
" Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. "
Warren Buffett
Inspirational
Long
Time
" The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. "
Warren Buffett
Business
Behavior
Reward
" 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. "
Warren Buffett
Body
People
Teacher
" Value is what you get. "
Warren Buffett
You
Value
Get
" I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. "
Warren Buffett
Money
Day
Years
" 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
Life
Wrong
Things
" 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
Yourself
Energy
Boat