Warren Buffett

I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’