40 Warren Buffett Quotes About Investing, Business, Life, And Success

Here are some inspirational Warren Buffett quotes to help you learn more about business, investing, and success.

by Loudia MahartikaPublish Date 09 September 2025, 01:00 AM
40 Warren Buffett Quotes About Investing, Business, Life, And Success

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Warren Buffett is a well-known American business magnate and philanthropist. He is often considered one of the most successful investors in the world. Over the years, Buffett has shared his wisdom and advice through various Warren Buffett quotes that have inspired and motivated many people.

Learning from Warren Buffett quotes can be beneficial as they offer valuable insights into the world of business, finance, and life in general. His quotes often focus on the importance of patience, discipline, and long-term thinking when it comes to investing and making decisions.

In this article, we have selected some of the best Warren Buffett quotes from various sources, Monday (9/8/2025). Let these words become the source of guidance and inspiration that lead us to success in our career, business, and life.


A. Warren Buffett Quotes On Investment And Business

Warren Buffett

1. "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1"

2. "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

3. "Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive."

4. "You've got to understand accounting. You've got to. That's got to be like a language to you,"

5. "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

6. "Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it."

7. "Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."

8. "A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful."

9. "Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down."

10. "Lose money for the firm, and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless." 

 

Warren Buffett

11. "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

12. "Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."

13. "Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

14. "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."

15. "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."

16. "The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."

17. "The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging."

18. "Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing."

19. "Successful Investing takes time, discipline, and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."

20. "Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving."


B. Famous Warren Buffett Quotes

Warren Buffett

1. "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."

2. "We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest."

3. "I don't look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over."

4. "Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source."

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

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

7. "If you're in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent."

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

9. "Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people."

10. "There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."

 

Warren Buffett. | via: dcclothesline.com

11. "Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations." 

12. "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."

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

14. "When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."

15. "We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds."

16. "Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does."

17. "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

18. "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

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

20. "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

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