Quotes from Warren Buffett

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don't love you back.

When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.