About Warren Buffett

Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the most successful investors in history. (b. 1930)

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More from Warren Buffett

• Price is what you pay; value is what you get.Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (2008)
• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (1986)
• You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (2001)
• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (1989)
• Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (1989)
• When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (1988)

More quotes on leadership

• We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.Theodore Roosevelt
• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance.Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Example is the best lesson there is.Eleanor Roosevelt
• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy
• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.John F. Kennedy
• Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.Dwight D. Eisenhower

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