Warren Buffett

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

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.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.

I measure success by how many people love me.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Understanding is a two-way street.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Whatever you have spend less.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.