Warren Buffett

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

I don’t think people get to be successful without ambition.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence I and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

When you’re successful, things have a momentum and you can’t tell if you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who do nothing and succeed.

I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

I measure success by how many people love me.

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

The rich. You know why they’re so odd? Because they can afford to be.

[As a child] I want to earn a thousand dollars a week, have an apartment on Ocean Parkway, and drive a Cadillac convertible.