Quotes About Success

It's not that I want money. It's the fun if making money and watching it grow.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.

this holding has proved extraordinarily profitable thanks to a move by your Chairman that combined luck and skill—110% luck, the balance skill.

The people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

Our advantage, rather, was attitude: we had learned from Ben Graham that the key to successful investing was the purchase of shares in good businesses when market prices were at a large discount from underlying business values.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.

Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it. — Warren Buffett

It is not greed that drives the but envy.

Don't work for money, make money work for you.

wishing makes dreams come true only in Disney movies; it's poison in business.

You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Our basic principle is that if you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. p217

One of the lessons your management has learned—and, unfortunately, sometimes re-learned—is the importance of being in businesses where tailwinds prevail rather than headwinds.

If you are not happy being in the top one tenth of one percent wealthiest people on earth, being in the top one hundreth of one percent isn't going to do anything for you.

If you invested in a low-cost index fund--where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years--you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

The equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite to success.

If children live in separate homes, proximity to the other parent has been found to be the single most important factor determining a child's likelihood of success.

It helps to have dreams if you pursue them in reality.

It's never crowded along the extra mile

Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.