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

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

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.

Never invest in a business you can’t understand.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)

Where charity keeps pace with grain, industry is blessed, but to slave to get, and keep it sordidly, is a sin against Providence, a vice in government and an injury to their neighbours.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

I teach that all men are mad.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.