Warren Buffett

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”

“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“The one thing I will tell you is the worst investment you can have is cash.”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

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

“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.”

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”

“I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor.”

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”

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

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

“Our favorite holding period is forever.”

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

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

“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.”

“Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.”

“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”