70 Warren Buffett Quotes for Investors (2024)

Motivational Quotes

Warren Buffett Quotes

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” ~ Warren Buffett

“Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1.” ~ Warren Buffett

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” ~ Warren Buffett

“Market fluctuations are your friend, not enemy.” ~ Warren Buffett

“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.” ~ Warren Buffett

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.” ~ Warren Buffett
“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” ~ Warren Buffett
“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.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ~ Warren Buffett
“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.” ~ Warren Buffett

Quotes byWarren Buffett

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.” ~ Warren Buffett
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, energy, and integrity. If they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two.” ~ Warren Buffett
“There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.” ~ Warren Buffett
“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” ~ Warren Buffett
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.” ~ Warren Buffett
“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.” ~ Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett Quotes on Investment

“Never invest in a business you cannot understand.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Never depend on a single income. Make an investment to create a second source.” ~ Warren Buffett
“For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.”~ Warren Buffett
“The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.” ~ Warren Buffett
“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”~ Warren Buffett
“Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The three most important words in investing are ‘margin of safety.’”~ Warren Buffett
“All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.” ~ Warren Buffett
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”~ Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett Quotes on Money

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”~ Warren Buffett
“If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.” ~ Warren Buffett
“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.”~ Warren Buffett
“Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.” ~ Warren Buffett
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.” ~ Warren Buffett
“It isn’t so much having a lot of brilliant decisions, it’s just not having some terrible ones.” ~ Warren Buffett

Buffett Quotes

“I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The more you learn, the more you earn.” ~ Warren Buffett
“You have to be able to think independently, and when you come to a conclusion you have to really not care what other people say. Just follow the facts and your reasoning.”~ Warren Buffett
“There’s a whole bunch of things I don’t know a thing about. I just stay away from those. I stay within what I call my circle of competence.” ~ 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.” ~ Warren Buffett
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”~ Warren Buffett
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.” ~ Warren Buffett
“We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.” ~ Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett Quotes

“You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Never test the depth of river with both the feet.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The key to success is emotional stability.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Our favorite holding period is forever.” ~ Warren Buffett
“If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”~ Warren Buffett
“It is not greed that drives the world, but envy.” ~ Warren Buffett
“If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”~ Warren Buffett
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.” ~ Warren Buffett
“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” ~ Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett’s Advice

“Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.” ~ Warren Buffett
“The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Just buy something for less than it’s worth.” ~ Warren Buffett
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”~ Warren Buffett
“Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold.” ~ Warren Buffett
“Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.” ~ Warren Buffett