Warren Buffett

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

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

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

I measure success by how many people love me.

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

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

I teach that all men are mad.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness , we don’t really know what love is.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

An empire is an immense egotism.