This document contains various quotes from Warren Buffett on investing and business. Some of the key ideas expressed are: only invest in businesses you understand and would be willing to hold for 10 years; it is better to invest in a wonderful business at a fair price than a fair business at a wonderful price; and the most important investment you can make is in yourself through self-improvement and learning. The quotes provide advice and wisdom from Buffett on developing good long-term investment strategies and business philosophies.

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2. ­Warren Buffett
Rule #1 is never
lose money.
Rule #2 is never
forget Rule #1.

3. ­Warren Buffett
Price is what you
pay. Value is what
you get.

4. ­Warren Buffett
Risk comes from
not knowing what
you are doing.

5. ­Warren Buffett
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.

6. ­Warren Buffett
In the business
world, the rearview
mirror is always
clearer than the
windshield.

7. ­Warren Buffett
It’s far better to buy
a wonderful
company at a fair
price, than a fair
company at a
wonderful price.

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

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

10. ­Warren Buffett
Only buy
something that
you’d be perfectly
happy to hold if the
market shut down
for 10 years.

11. ­Warren Buffett
Our favorite
holding period is
forever.

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

13. ­Warren Buffett
You do things when the
opportunities come along.
I’ve had periods in my life
when I’ve had a bundle of
ideas come along, and I’ve
had long dry spells. If I get
an idea next week, I’ll do
something. If not, I won’t
do a damn thing.

14. ­Warren Buffett
Honesty is a very
expensive gift.
Don’t expect it from
cheap people.

15. ­Warren Buffett
Someone’s sitting
in the shade today
because someone
planted a tree a
long time ago.

16. ­Warren Buffett
If you’re in the
luckiest 1% of
humanity, you owe it
to the rest of
humanity to think
about the other 99%.

17. ­Warren Buffett
There seems to be
some perverse
human characteristic
that likes to make
easy things difficult.

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

19. ­Warren Buffett
The difference
between successful
people and really
successful people is
that really successful
people say no to
almost everything.

20. ­Warren Buffett
In the world of
business, the people
who are most
successful are those
who are doing what
they love.

21. ­Warren Buffett
You know… you
keep doing the same
things and you keep
getting the same
result over and over
again.

22. ­Warren Buffett
An investor should
act as though he had
a lifetime decision
card with just twenty
punches on it.

23. ­Warren Buffett
You’ve gotta keep
control of your time,
and you can’t unless
you say no. You can’t
let people set your
agenda in life.

24. ­Warren Buffett
Diversification is
protection against
ignorance. It
makes little sense
if you know what
you are doing.

25. ­Warren Buffett
Opportunities come
infrequently. When
it rains gold, put
out the bucket, not
the thimble.

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

27. ­Warren Buffett
Tell me who your
heroes are and I’ll
tell you who you’ll
turn out to be.

28. ­Warren Buffett
If you aren’t thinking
about owning a stock
for 10 years, don’t
even think about
owning it for 10
minutes.

29. ­Warren Buffett
Not doing what we
love in the name of
greed is very poor
management of our
lives.

30. ­Warren Buffett
The most important
investment you can
make is in yourself.

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