Warren Buffett

Successful investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.

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

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

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

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.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

There are some sick people in this world.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.