Warren Buffett Life Quotations

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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

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

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Never lie under any circumstances.

We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

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?

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

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.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

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