30 Best Warren Buffett Quotes

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

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. – Warren Buffett

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. – Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. – Warren Buffett

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. – Warren Buffett

Our favorite holding period is forever. – Warren Buffett

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett

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

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. – Warren Buffett

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. – Warren Buffett

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

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

Never invest in a business you cannot understand. – Warren Buffett

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. – Warren Buffett

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. – Warren Buffett

You can't make a good deal with a bad person. – Warren Buffett

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. – 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

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

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre. – Warren Buffett

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. – Warren Buffett

It's not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. – Warren Buffett

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. – Warren Buffett

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes. – Warren Buffett

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. – Warren Buffett

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. – Warren Buffett

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people. – Warren Buffett