60 inspirational quotes by Warren Buffett for business

Warren Buffett, often referred to as the "Oracle of Omaha," is widely regarded as one of the greatest investors of all time. His wisdom transcends financial markets, offering timeless advice on business, leadership, and life. Known for his simplicity and practicality, Buffett's quotes inspire countless entrepreneurs and professionals to think differently and act wisely.  In this blog, we’ve curated 60 of his most inspirational quotes to provide you with valuable insights and guidance for your business journey.

60 inspirational quotes by Warren Buffett for business 

1. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
2. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
3. Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.
4. It’s better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
5. Do not save what is left after spending; instead, spend what is left after saving.
6. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
7. The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
8. Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
9. Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
10. If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
11. The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
12. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
13. Never invest in a business you cannot understand.
14. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
15. Our favorite holding period is forever.
16. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
17. When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
18. The best investment you can make is in yourself.
19. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
20. Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.
21. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
22. The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
23. Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
24. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is; your life is a disaster.
25. The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
26. Honesty is a very expensive gift, don’t expect it from cheap people.
27. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
28. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
29. You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.
30. Tell me who your heroes are, and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.
31. The more you learn, the more you earn.
32. The greatest investment you can make is in yourself.
33. You don’t have to be a genius. You just have to have the right temperament for the market.
34. Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ. What you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble.
35. Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
36. What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
37. If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
38. You cannot make a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
39. The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.
40. Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.
41. 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.
42. Money won’t change how healthy you are or how many people love you.
43. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
44. You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, extraordinarily well.
45. Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
46. Don’t test the depth of the river with both feet.
47. Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
48. I measure success by how many people love me.
49. Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
50. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
51. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
52. The happiest people do not necessarily have the best of everything. They make the best of everything.
53. The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
54. If you can’t communicate, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark – nothing happens.
55. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.
56. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
57. We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
58. The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
59. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
60. Too often, a vast difference exists between what people know and what they do.

Conclusion

Warren Buffett’s quotes are more than just words; they are a roadmap to achieving success, not only in business but also in life. By embracing his principles of patience, value, and long-term thinking, you can transform challenges into opportunities and dreams into realities.