Warren Buffett

Never invest in a business you can’t understand.

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

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.

I measure success by how many people love me.

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

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

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The years teach much what the days never knew.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

The future is purchased by the present.

The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.