Warren Buffett Success Quotations

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

The key to success is emotional stability.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

The best investment you can make is in yourself

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.