Warren Buffett Quotes

13 quotes from Warren Buffett on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it.
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say "no" to almost everything.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.