Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
WB
Warren BuffettBerkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (1989)
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)
- When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter (1988)
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Statement (1991), quoted in Of Permanent Value by Andrew Kilpatrick
More quotes on time and productivity
- It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.Seneca
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.Marcus Aurelius
- 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
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