Warren Buffett

When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with 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.

My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge

Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

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

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

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

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

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.