Warren Buffett

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.

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.

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

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

Nobody buys a farm based on whether they think it’s going to rain next year. They buy it because they think it’s a good investment over 10 or 20 years.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress even on the smoothest road.

The real risk is doing nothing.

It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.

You have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Selling is something we do for our clients – not to our clients.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.