Warren Buffett says

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

—Warren Buffett

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“For Buffett, managers are stewards of shareholder capital. The best managers think like owners in making business decisions.”

—Warren Buffett

“Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.”

—Warren Buffett

“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”

“While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past.”

—Warren Buffett

“If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”

—Warren Buffett

“Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”

—Warren Buffett

“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”

—Warren Buffett

“Some time ago Ken Galbraith, in his witty and insightful The Great Crash, coined a new economic term: “the bezzle,” defined as the current amount of undiscovered embezzlement. This financial creature has a magical quality: The embezzlers are richer by the amount of the bezzle, while the embezzlees do not yet feel poorer.”

—Warren Buffett

“Over-all, we probably would have retained better prospects for the next five years if profits had not risen so dramatically this year.”

—Warren Buffett

“If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.”

—Warren Buffett

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”

—Warren Buffett

“It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.”

—Warren Buffett

“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble”

—Warren Buffett

“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”

—Warren Buffett

“Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.”

—Warren Buffett