Warren Buffett Successful Quotations

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

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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.

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.

After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

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