Warren Buffett

United States
Born on 30 Aug 1930
Business Magnate / Investor / Philanthropist

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
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.
Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.
There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
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.
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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