Warren Buffett

I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society.

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

I measure success by how many people love me.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor.

If past history was all that mattered, the richest people would be librarians.

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

I don't look for things I can understand. I look for things I can't understand.

I'm not a tech guy. I don't use a computer. I don't use a cell phone. I don't Google.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, 'We don't get enough breaks.' And the poor are going to say, 'We don't get enough breaks.'

I don't get much fun out of good food. I don't get much fun out of an expensive car. I don't get much fun out of anything material.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.

I bought my first stock when I was 11. I felt I had wasted a decade.

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

I've never met a rich person who was unhappy.