Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WB
Warren BuffettStatement (1991), quoted in Of Permanent Value by Andrew Kilpatrick
About Warren Buffett
Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the most successful investors in history. (b. 1930)
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 time and productivity
- Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.Marcus Aurelius
- No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.Epictetus
- Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau
- It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?Henry David Thoreau
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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