455. QUOTES - WARREN BUFFET

Warren Buffett - Quotations

Warren Buffett, American investor, businessman and philanthropist

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska), is regarded as one of the world's greatest stock market investors, and is the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway . With an estimated net worth of around USD 62 billion, he was ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world as of February 11, 2008.

Quotations

1. A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
2. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
3. Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
4. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. Warren Buffett
5. I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
6. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
7. I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
8. 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.
9. I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
10. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
11. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
12. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
13. It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
14. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
15. Let us do or die.
16. Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
17. Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
18. Never invest in a business you cannot understand.
19. Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
20. Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
21. Our favorite holding period is forever.
22. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
23. Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
24. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
25. The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
26. The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
27. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
28. The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.
29. The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
30. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
31. We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
32. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
33. 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.
34. Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".
35. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
36. 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.
37. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
38. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

454. Quotes - Success

Quotes - Success

"And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!"
Dr. Seuss

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"Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful."
William Ward

"Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people."
David Schwartz

"A strenuous soul hates cheap success."

"Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness."
Louis Binstock

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."
William Shakespeare

"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein

"Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish"
John Maxwell

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison

"Success makes success, like money makes money."
Nicolas Chamfort

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
Albert Einstein

"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education."
Paul Gray

"Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children."
Albert Einstein

"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
Albert Einstein

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
C.S. Lewis

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
K. Chesterton

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Ward

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated."
Robert Savage

"Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it"
William Shakespeare

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"A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart."
William Shakespeare

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden."
William Shakespeare

"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind"
William Shakespeare

"Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere."
William Shakespeare

"Many can brook (endure) the weather that love not the wind"
William Shakespeare

"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns."
William Shakespeare

"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"
William Shakespeare

"But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament"
William Shakespeare

"Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be"
William Shakespeare

Proverbs have been special words of wisdom that motivate one to stand up and not just rectify the errors they commit, but also motivate one to take positive steps in life. These words of wisdom have come from creative and experienced individuals through the ages. Every culture has contributed towards enriching human life with maxims, adages, proverbs, as they maybe known.

Given here is a list of famous proverbs to nourish the soul and fuel one into acting towards the betterment of society and for a better living for themselves…

• A bad cause requires many words.
• A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
• A close friend can become a close enemy.
• A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
• A forest is in an acorn.
• A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
• A hungry man is an angry man.
• A loan though old is not gift.
• A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
• A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.
• A penny saved is a penny gained.
• A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.
• God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.
• He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
• He makes his home where the living is best.

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